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250. As to the size of the ice-house, that must, of 

 course, depend upon the quantity of ice that you may 

 choose to have. A house on the above scale, is from 

 ID to x (FiG. 2) twenty-nine feet; from y to z (Fio. 

 2) nineteen feet. The area of the circle, of which a 

 is the centre, is ten feet in diameter, and as this area 

 contains seventy-five superficial feet, you will, if you 

 put ice on the bed to the height of only five feet, (and 

 you may put it on to the height of seven feet from the 

 top of the bed,) you will have three hundred and se- 

 venty-five cubic feet of ice; and, observe, a cubic foot 

 of ice will, when broken up, fill much more than a 

 Winchester Bushel: what it may do as to an " IMPE- 

 RIAL BUSHEL," engendered like Greek Loan Commis- 

 sioners, by the unnatural heat of " PROSPERITY," God 

 only knows ! However, I do suppose, that, without 

 making any allowance for the "cold fit," as Dr. 

 Baring calls it, into which " late panic" has Irought 

 us ; I do suppose, that even the scorching, the burn- 

 ing dog-star of "IMPERIAL PROSPERITY;" nay, that 

 even DIVES himself, would hardlf call for more than 

 two bushels of ice in a day ; for more than two bush- 

 els a day it would be, unless it were used in cold as 

 well -as in hot weather. 



251. As to the expense of such a house, it could, 

 in the country, not be much. None of the posts, ex- 

 cept the main or centre-post, need be very straight. 

 The other posts might be easily culled from tree-lops, 

 destined for fire-wood. The straw would make all 

 straight. The plates must 6f necessity be short 

 pieces of wood ; and, as to the stakes, the laths, and 

 the logs, poles, rods, twigs, and heath, they would 

 not all cost twenty shillings. The straw is the prin- 

 cipal article ; and, in most places, even that would 

 not cost more than two or three pounds. If it last 

 many years, the price could not be an object ; and if 

 but a little while, it would still be nearly as good for 

 litter as it was before it was applied to this purpose. 

 How often the bottom of the straw walls might want 

 renewing I cannot say, but I know that the roof would 

 with few and small repairs, last well for ten years. 



