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252. I have said that the interior row of posts is to 

 be nine feet high, and the exterior row five feet high. 

 I, in each case, mean, with the plate inclusive. I 

 have only to add, that by way of superabundant pre- 

 caution against bottom wet, it will be well to make a 

 sort of gutter, to receive the drip from the" roof, and 

 to carry it away as soon as it falls. 



253. Now, after expressing a hope that I shall have 

 made myself clearly understood by every reader, it is 

 necessary that I remind him, that I do not pretend to 

 pledge myself for the complete success, nor for any 

 success at all, of this mode of making ice-houses. 

 But, at the same time, I express my firm belief, that 

 complete success would attend it; because it not 

 only corresponds with what I have seen of such mat- 

 ters ; but I had the details from a gentleman who 



^had ample experience to guide him, and who was a 

 man on whose word and judgment I placed a per- 

 fect reliance. He advised me to erect an ice-house ; 

 but not caring enough about fresh meat and fish in 

 summer, or at least not setting them enough above 

 "prime pork" to induce me to take any trouble to se- 

 cure the former, I never built an ice-house. Thus, 

 then, I only communicate that in which I believe; 

 there is, however, in all cases, this comfort, that if 

 the thing fail as an ice-house, it will serve all gene- 

 rations to come as a model for a pig-bed. 



ADDITION. 



Kensington^ Nov. 14Z/&, 1831. 



MANGEL WURZEL. 



254. THIS last summer, I have proved that, as keep 

 for cows, MANGEL WURZEL is preferable to SWEDISH 

 TURNIPS, whether as to quantity or quality. But 

 there needs no other alteration in the book, than 

 merely to read mangel wurzel wherever you find 

 Swedish turnip ; the time of sowing, the mode and 



