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The wooden covers of these eight boilers, and the 

 horizontal tubes, constructed of wood wound round 

 with canvas and painted with oil colours, by which the 

 steam is carried off, have been found to answer very 

 well the purposes for which they were contrived. 



The Kitchen of the Military Academy at Munich. 



This kitchen in its present state is so perfect in all 

 its parts, that I do not think it capable of any consid- 

 erable improvement. The roaster, which has been in 

 daily use seven years, is still in good condition, and bids 

 fair to last twenty years longer. It is large and roomy, 

 and has been found to be extremely useful. Though 

 the different parts of this kitchen are not distributed 

 with so much symmetry as could have been wished, 

 owing to local circumstances, yet it is very complete in 

 its various details, and all the various processes of 

 cookery are performed in it with little labour, and with 

 a very small expense indeed of fuel. Two large boil- 

 ers and three large saucepans, which are fitted up in 

 a detached mass of brick-work in a corner of the room 

 (on the right hand on going into it), I can recommend 

 as perfect models for imitation. In short, I know of 

 nothing which I could wish to alter in this kitchen. 

 To say the truth, it has already undergone a sufficient 

 number of changes and alterations. 



The Kitchen in the Military Hall or Officers' Mess- 

 House in the English Garden at Munich. 



This kitchen is much less perfect in its details than 

 that just mentioned. It was built in the spring of the 

 year 1 790, and has since undergone only a few trifling 

 alterations. It has three roasters, which are made small 



