88 Description. 



of the niamal has always two rows of them 

 on both sides ; namely, one on the ground 

 floor and another above. Every one upon 

 the ground floor, has one above, per- 

 fectly equal, both in length and breadth. 

 The rooms of each row on the ground floor, 

 are all regular and equal, in length, breadth, 

 and height. Reaumur observes, we know 

 of no other rooms in the world so low as 

 these, being only three feet in height. 

 Their breadth, which is in the same direc- 

 tion with the length of the gallery, is four 

 or fire feet ; that they are very narrow in 

 proportion to their length, which is twelve 

 or fifteen feet. 



Every one of these rooms has its door or 

 round aperture, about a foot and a half in 

 diameter, opening into the gallery, the hole 

 being wide enough for a man to creep 

 through. All the eggs to be hatched, are 

 first ranged in these rooms. Father Sicard 

 informs us, that four or five thousand eggs 

 are put into each of them. These are the 

 real ovens, so that the whole edifice, which 

 is denominated a cliicken-oven, is an assem- 



