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the range was taken away), the range, which is about 

 5 feet long, was divided into three unequal parts, 

 which parts were built up with hard fire-bricks in such 

 a manner as to form three distinct fire-places, the one 

 contiguous to the other, and separated from each other 

 by divisions so thin in front that when fires are burning 

 in them all it appears like one fire, and has all the effect 

 of one fire in roasting meat that is put before it. Each 

 fire-place is, however, perfectly distinct from the others, 

 and has its own distinct coverings (which are oblique), 

 back, throat, etc., though the same front bars, which 

 are of hammered iron, and made very strong, run through 

 them all. 



When a very small fire is wanted (merely for boiling 

 a tea-kettle, for instance), it is kindled in the first or 

 smallest fire-place ; when a little larger fire is necessary, 

 it is made in the second fire-place, which is at the oppo- 

 site end of the range; when a still larger fire is required, 

 it is made in the third fire-place, which occupies the 

 middle of the range. If a large fire in the fourth degree 

 is wanted, two neighbouring fires are kindled in the 

 first and third fire-places; if in the fifth degree, the 

 two contiguous fires are lighted in the second and third 

 fire-places ; and when the greatest fire that can be made 

 is wanted, all the three fire-places are at the same time 

 filled with burning fuel. 



In cases where a single open chimney fire-place of 

 a moderate size, that is to say, from 18 to 20 inches in 

 width, might sometimes be too small, and a very wide 

 fire, like that just described, would never be wanted, 

 I would advise the construction of two separate but 

 adjoining fire-places, the one about 1 2 inches, and the 

 other about 1 8 or 20 inches in width. These would, I 



