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from bright sunshine is necessary, if the board at the top were re- 

 moved, to cause a circulation of air between the canvas and the wall. 

 I haVe sketched fig. 4 to show how these evils may be remedied. 

 Instead of the canvas falling from the top, according to the plan, its 

 proper resting-place should be at the bottom. Instead of nailing 

 the canvas to the front of the coping-board, it may be nailed to a 

 similar rail as b b, fig. 1, and the ropes attached to it instead of 

 to the lower one. By having the canvas at bottom, it is removed 

 farther from the wall ; and owing to the direction of the sun's rays, 

 very little of the bottom of the wall will be shaded, and, besides, 

 the folds of the canvas will still be at liberty to play with the 

 breeze, to dry it when let down wet (one of its great advantages). 

 To set the board at liberty, I think it would not be a very difficult 

 matter to have the pulleys 

 supported on projecting iron 

 plates (fig. 5), with good 

 strong supports under them. 

 The boards might be set on 

 hinges at the front of the 

 coping, and worked up and 

 down by a small pulley fixed 

 into the stone coping, with a 



hole for the rope to pass down close by the wall. I have tried to show 

 at fig. 5 that the pulleys now in use are closed in over the top, so that 

 the ropes cannot get out of their place if left hanging loose. I have no 

 hesitation in saying that frigi domo is the best material for this purpose. 



E, 1., G. P. 



Fig. 5. 



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 MIDLAND COUNTIES. 



(Continued from page 513 of 1869.) 



Viewed as a whole, the scenery around Eastnor Castle possesses a greater 

 variety of aspect than is usually to be met with in places of a similar character. 

 Nature has done much here, and art has stepped in to give the finishing stroke. 

 The want of space does not permit me to individualise. I can only notice 

 cursorily a few of the leading features, and these of the simplest kind. We have 

 here a constant succession of hills of varying altitudes, in different directions, and 

 several miles in extent; some in the distance appearing to overlap each other — 

 while, again, some are standing out as distinct objects, as if thrown off during a 

 subterranean convulsion. 



So great an irregularity of surface produces a rapid succession of parts, and 

 although the transition is quick, often violent, the contour is graceful, so that 



