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rafters or roof, with holes in each gable-end to admit a free circu- 

 lation of air. The main room is divided into two compartments — 

 the fruit-room and ice-room — by the partition d. The partition d 

 unites with the walls on both front and rear, but a small opening 

 of a few inches is left both above and below it — that is, between 

 the whole length of the lower and uppdt" edges and the floor and 

 the ceiling. The ice, as represented, is piled up in a compact mass 

 in the right division, and covered in the usual manner with straw. 

 A. small vacant space, v. is left between the ice and the division- 



