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Of the Management of Fire 



to compare, were made with the greatest care, and as 

 they are on several accounts uncommonly interesting, I 

 shall place them in a conspicuous point of view. 



A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF TWO EXPERIMENTS MADE 

 WITH A NEW BREWHOUSE BOILER. 



The time is reckoned from the beginning of the Experiment, and was 

 the same in both Experiments. 



Quantity of water in the boiler 1 1,368 Ibs. Bavarian weight. 



Having found, by comparing the results of these two 

 experiments, that I had lost nothing in respect to the 

 economy of fuel by shutting up the outside flue of my 

 boiler, I was now desirous of ascertaining how much I 

 had gained in point of time, or how much the increased 

 draught of the fire-place, in consequence of its flues 

 being shortened, enabled me to abridge the time em- 

 ployed in causing the contents of the boiler to boil, in 



