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put through the hole to fupply the ftove, fo that there is 
feldom more than one fire burning atatime. In the floor 
over the ftove-room, is a {mall trap door, to let the warm 
air rife occafionally into the chamber. Thus the whole 
houfe is warmed at little expence of wood, and the ftove- 
room kept conftantly warm; fo that in the coldeft winter 
nights, they can work late, and find the room ftill com- 
fortable when they rife to work early. An Englifh farm- 
er in America who makes great fires in large open chim- 
neys, needs the conftant employment of one man to cut 
and haul wood for fupplying them; and the draft of cold 
air to them is fo ftrong, that the heels of his family are 
frozen while they are f{corching their faces, and the room 
is never warm, {fo that little fedentary work can be done 
by them in winter. The difference in this article alone 
of ceconomy, fhall, in a courfe of years, enable the Ger- 
man to buy out the Englifhman, and take poffeflion of 
his plantation. 
MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS. 
HIMNEYS whofe funnels go up in the north wall of 
a houfe and are expofed to the north winds, are not fo 
apt to draw well as thofe in a fouth wall; becaufe when 
rendered cold by thofe winds, they draw downwards. 
Chimneys enclofed in the body of a houfe are better than 
thofe whofe funnels are expofed in cold walls. 
Chimneys in ftacks are apt to draw better than feparate 
funnels, becaufe the funnels that have conftant fires in 
them, warm the others in fome degree that have none. 
One of the funnels in ahoufe I once occupied, had a parti- 
cular funnel joined tothe fouth fide of the ftack, fo that three 
of its fides were expofed to the fun in the courfe of the day, 
viz. the eaft fide E during the morning, the fouth fide 
rth, Sin the middle part of theday, and the weft fide W 
; during the afternoon, while its north fide was fhelter- 
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