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[August, 



the fact (for whicli we can vouch from personal observation) that a lump of ice 

 of, say, 181b. or 20 lb. weight, will give a liberal supply for daily use during ten 

 or twelve days. 



It is indeed a great luxury during the hot season to have so easily at com- 

 mand a supply of an article of use so refreshing as ice, the chief diflSculty in 

 ordinary cases being how to preserve it, even for a few hours. With this box 

 there is no trouble whatever about it. The ice is simply wrapped in a thick 

 layer of flannel — part of a blanket is the best material that can be employed— 

 and placed on the wire bottom of the inner box, which secures perfect drainage, 

 while, of course, the edges of both boxes, and the corresponding parts of 



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the lids, should bo padded, so as to ensure the perfect exclusion of the external 

 atmosphere. 



But little description is necessary, since the engravings, which are drawn io 

 a scale of one-eighth to an inch, speak for themselves. We may, however, 

 explain that A represents the inner box, or ice-chest ; B, the space enclosed by 

 the lid of the outer box, or protector ; c, the space between the boxes, to be 

 packed with sawdust ; D, the lid of the inner box, which should itself be a box 

 filled with sawdust; E, sloping bottom of zinc plate, with about l|-inch fall to 

 the drain-pipe ; f, drain-pipe, the exterior end of which should dip into a jar of 

 water, constantly full, so as to exclude the air; G, false bottom of stout 

 galvanised wire netting, fixed about an inch above the zinc plate. This wire 



