lOO Baiters' Ovens. 



that people are actually provided in most 

 countries, with as many chicken-stoves, as 

 are necessary to hatch a greater numher 

 than there are annually produced in Egypt. 

 'Tis true the quantity of eggs warmed at a 

 time in one mamal^ is greater than that 

 which can be warmed in one of our new 

 ovens ; but does not the number of those 

 ovens, which are heated frequently enough 

 to serve to hatch chickens, vastly surpass 

 that of the three hundred and eighty six, 

 which is the whole number of the Egyptian 

 mamals ? If nothing was wanted to us but 

 ovens, London or Paris alone, with the 

 suburbs, &c. would enable us annually to 

 hatch more chickens, than are hatched all 

 over Egypt. We may without engaging 

 ourselves in a calculation of the number of 

 the ovens, that are employed to feed the 

 inhabitants of those large towns, very con- 

 fidently affirm, that there are a great many 

 more than three hundred and eighty six ; 

 nor are the ovens of the pastry cooks to be 

 forgotten. In short, the stoves dependent 

 on them, might serve to warm eggs and 



