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happened that I was mlftaken in my decifion. This refined fugar feems therefore to be of 

 confiderable purity and ftrength. It is obtained from the other fugar, in the quantity of 

 55 per cent., together with 25 per cent, of refidual fyrup or molafles. 3. The other article 

 was a bottle of this molafles. It is fweet with a Angular vegetable flavour, rather fragrant, 

 and would, I doubt not, afford either a pleafant vinous liquor by fermentation, or a confi- 

 derable quantity of ardent fpirit. 



Count Rumford's Experimental EJfays, Political, Economical, and Philofophical, EJfay X. 

 Part I. on the ConJlruElion of Kitchen Fire-Places at(d Kitchen Utenfils, together -with Remarks 

 and Obfervations relating to the various Procejfes of Cookery, and Propofals for improving that 

 moll ufeful Art. OElavo. 94 Pages. 7 Plates. Price 2s. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 

 As I have ufually given an abridged account of the valuable publications of this author, 

 and mean to do the fame with regard to this efl^ay, I fhall at prefent give the contents only, 

 which are; Introdudion. Chap. I. Of the imperfedtion of the kitchen fire-places now in 

 common ufe — Objedts particularly to be had in view in attempts to improve them — Of the 

 diltribution of the various parts of the machinery of a kitchen — Of the method to be ob- 

 ferved in forming the plan of a kitchen that is to be fitted up, and in laying out the work. 

 Chap. II. Detailed accounts, illuftrated by corredl: plans of various kitchens, public and 

 private, that have already been conftrudled on the author's principles, and under his im- 

 mediate direction. Chap. III. Of the alterations and improvements that may be made in 

 the kitchen fire-places now in common ufe in Great-Britain — All improvements in kitchen 

 fireplaces impoflible, as long as they continue to be incumbered with fmoke jacks. They 

 occafion an enormous wafl;e of fuel. Common jacks that go with a weight are much 

 better. Ovens and boilers that are connected with a kitchen range fliould be detached 

 from it, and heated each by its own feparate fire. The clofed fire-places for iron ovens 

 and roafters can hardly be made too fmall. — Of the various means that may be ufed for 

 improving the large open fire-places of kitchens. — Of the cottage fire-places now in com- 

 mon ufe, and of the means of improving them.' — Of the very great ufe that fmall ovens 

 conftru£ted of thin (heet iron would be of to cottages. — Of the great importance of im- 

 proving the implements and utenfijs ufed by the poor In cooking their food. — No improve- 

 ment in their method of preparing their food poflible without it.— Defcription of an oven 

 fuitable for a poor family, with an eftimate of the coft of it. — Of nefts of three or four 

 fmaller ovens heated by one fire. — Of the utility of thefe nefts of ovens in the kitchens of 

 private families. — They may be fitted up at a very fmall expence. — Occafional remarks 

 refpecling the materials proper to be ufed in conftrufting the fides and backs of open 

 chimney fire-places. — Appendix. — An account of our experiment that was made to afcer- 

 tain the expence of putting up a fmall oven, fuitable for the family of a cottager. 



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