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composed of clay and brickdust, without any sand, with 

 only a very small proportion of lime. 



In this kitchen, as also in that which I am now about 

 to describe, the mass of brick-work in which the boilers 

 are set projects into the room from the middle of one 

 side of it. 



Description of the Kitchen of the Hospital of 



La Pieta at Verona. 



PLATE X. 



Fig. 6. This figure represents the ground plan of the 

 mass of brick-work in which the boilers are fixed, and 

 the canals by which the smoke is carried off from the 

 fire-places into the chimney. The ground covered by 

 this mass of brick-work, and by the area (y) between the 

 boilers, may be conceived to be divided into six equal 

 squares, of 43 inches, placed in two rows of three squares 

 each. In the centres of four of these squares namely, 

 of those which are situated at the ends of the rows 

 are placed four large circular boilers. The middle square 

 of the front row is chiefly occupied by the area which is 

 left between the two front boilers ; and one half of the 

 middle square of the back row is occupied by an open 

 chimney fire-place, in the thick walls of which no less 

 than six vertical flues are concealed, which carry off the 

 smoke from the boilers and stewpans into the chimney. 



The smoke from the fire which heats the large boiler 

 P (which boiler is 32^ inches in diameter), on quitting 

 its fire-place, goes off in four separate branches, which 

 soon unite and form one canal, rises up under the 

 middle of the bottom of the neighbouring large boiler 

 Q, makes one complete turn under that boiler, and, 

 passing from thence towards the centre of the mass of 



