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close to the stove. The expanding of the iron on be- 

 ing heated, would move the brick work out of its place, 

 if it were built against the edges of the plate. This 

 plate rises about a third higher than the stove itself 

 which reaches only from A, B, to F, E, in order to al- 

 low a second oven of sheet iron to be placed about the 

 oven of the stove. The mouth of this oven appears 

 open at H. The stove has but two apartments. The 

 lower, the door of which appears shut, is the furnace in 

 which the wood is consumed, and is similar to the fur- 

 nace of a ten plate stove. The second apartment, 

 the door of which appears open, is used as an oven for 

 baking or roasting, or for boiling a small vessel as 

 occasion may require. At I, appears the opening in the 

 bottom plate through which the fire is admitted into 

 this apartment. Over this opening a sliding damper 

 passes when it is desired to shut it, the handle of which 

 is seen projecting in front of the stove at K. There is 

 a corresponding opening in the plate over this apart- 

 ment, through which the fire passes out of it into the 

 flue above. This opening is also closed by a sliding 

 damper, the handle of which projects at L. The brick 

 \\^ork M, N, at the side of the furnace as appears in the 

 drawing, extends such a distance as to inclose a vacant 

 •space sufficient to contain a pot set close to the side of 

 the furnace. Over the top of this inclosure of brick 

 work, is laid flat the cast plate O, P, in Avhich is an 

 opening Q, through which a pot of a cylindrical form 

 may be dropped close to the side of the stove. This 

 pot is supported by a perpendicular edge projecting 

 round the lip, and resting on the plate through which it 

 is dropped. Directly opposite the pot is a large open- 



