2 1 8 On the Construction of Kitchen 



boilers escapes into the chimney, and goes off with the 

 smoke. 



The manner in which the flues are constructed under 

 the different boilers, and the horizontal canal for carrying 

 off the smoke from the round boilers into the chimney, 

 are shown in the Fig. 7. The ash-pit doors to the two 

 principal round boilers, which are expressed by dotted 

 lines, are opposite to E and F, Fig. 7. 



The ash-pit door belonging to the fire-place of the 

 large quadrangular boilers is situated opposite to G, 

 Fig. 7. The reason why these ash-pit doors were not 

 placed immediately under their fire-place doors is be- 

 cause there was not room for them in that situation, 

 owing to the pavement of the area between the boilers 

 being raised one step higher than the floor of the kitchen, 

 which was done for the convenience of the cook. 



The openings for introducing the fuel into the fire- 

 places are conical holes in square tiles, closed with earthen 

 stoppers (see page 26). Though these tiles are not par- 

 ticularly distinguished in these plates, the stoppers which 

 close their conical openings are shown. As these tiles 

 are so worked into the mass of the brick-work as to 

 make a part of it, and as they are plastered and white- 

 washed in front, it is not easy to distinguish them from 

 the bricks w r hen the work is finished. Their joinings 

 with the bricks in front could not therefore with propri- 

 ety be marked in any of these plans. 



Although the roaster belonging to the kitchen we 

 are describing is not seen, yet the mass of brick-work 

 in which it is fitted up appears on the left-hand side of 

 the open chimney fire-place in Fig. 8 ; and a bird's-eye 

 view of its fire-place, and of the projecting edges of the 

 bricks on which it rests, is seen in the Fig. 9. 



