34 APPENDIX. 
from the grate to the right and left, and turning in paf- 
fages difpofed, as in figure 13, fo as that every part of the 
floor may be vifited by it before it enters the funnel F, by 
the two paflages E E, very little of the heat will be loft, 
and a winter room thus rendered very comfortable. 
N® dV. 
AGE 8. Few can imagine, &c. It is faid the Ice- 
' landers have very little fuel, chiefly drift wood that 
comes upon their coaft. To receive more advantage from 
its heat, they make their doors low, and have a {tage round 
the room above the door, like a gallery, wherein the wo- 
men can fit and work, the men read or write, &c. The 
roof being tight, the warm air is confined by it and kept 
from rifing higher and efcaping ; and the cold air which 
enters the houfe when the door is opened, cannot rife 
above the level of the top of the door, becaufe it is hea- 
vier than the warm air above the door, and fo thofe in the 
gallery are not incommoded by it. Some of our too lofty 
rooms might have a ftage fo conftruéted as to make a tem- 
porary gallery above, for the winter, to be taken.away in 
fummer. Sedentary people would. find much comfort 
there in cold weather. 
N° V. 
PAGE 26. Where they have the art of managing it, &c. 
In fome houfes of the lower people among the northern 
nations of Europe, and among the poorer fort of Germans 
in Pennfylvania, I have obferved this conftruétion, which 
appears very advantageous. A is the kitchen with itschim- 
ney; B an iron ftove in the ftove-room. In a corner 
of the chimney is a hole through the back into the 
ftove, to put in fuel, and another hole above it to let’ 
the fmoke of the ftove come back intothe chimney. As foon 
as the cooking is over, the brandsin the kitchen chimney are 
put 
Plate I. 
Figure II. 
