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The large boiler belonging to the fire-place, which is 

 situated on the left hand in the mass of brick-work above 

 described, is that which was used in the experiment 

 mentioned on page 8. 



It was once my intention to have published drawings 

 and descriptions of every part and detail of the kitchen 

 of the Military Academy at Munich, and also that of 

 the House of Industry in that city. But as enough has 

 already been said in this and in my sixth Essay to 

 give clear and distinct ideas of the fundamental prin- 

 ciples on which all the essential parts of the machinery 

 in those kitchens were constructed ; and as the peculiar 

 arrangement of a kitchen must ever depend much on 

 its size, and on the variety and kinds of food that are 

 to be cooked in it, to avoid being tedious and tiresome 

 to my readers, I have, after mature deliberation, con- 

 cluded that it will be best to suppress these details. 



Having now finished all the descriptions which I 

 think it useful to publish of the various public and 

 private kitchens that have been constructed under my 

 direction in foreign countries, and having explained in 

 the most ample manner in this Essay, and in my other 

 writings on the management of fire, all the leading 

 principles according to which, in my opinion, kitchens 

 and fire-places of all kinds should be constructed, I 

 shall in the next place proceed to show in what manner 

 my plans may be so modified and accommodated to 

 the opinions and practices in this country as to remove 

 the objections that will probably be made to them, and 

 facilitate their gradual introduction into general use. 



I am well aware that it is by no means enough for 

 those who propose improvements to the public to be in 

 the right in regard to the intrinsic merit of their plans: 



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