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that are comfortable, or even healthy, or fuch as a 
humane landholder would wifh to build, or an in- 
duftrious labourer with a decent cleanly wife and 
family, would, if they could poffibly help it, inhabit. 
As the health of the inhabitants is certainly the 
firft object to be confidered in building houfes, and 
as a free circulation of air is allowed to contribute 
very effential thereto; the lower rooms in all 
thefe plans of cottages are at leaft feven feet high 
under the beams, and the upper rooms at leaft fix 
feet eight inches. 
And as every humane builder of cottages would 
wifh to make them as comfortable as poffible, where 
it can be done at a fmall additional expence, a 
chamber-chimney is drawn in the grcateft part of 
the following plans. 
Tue plans of cottages on the plates annexed, and 
hereafter defcribed, have in part been already exe- 
cuted by the Marquis of Bath, part by Jofhua 
Smith, efq; and the reft are new defigns. : 
The eftimates of building them are calculated, 
fuppofing them to be built with the rough ftone of 
the neighbourhood, and with elm or fir timber, 
and covered with thatch. 
‘The rooms on the ground-floor are all fuppofed 
to be paved with rough ftone or brick: the walls of 
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