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their backs and sides, in that part especially which 

 contains and is occupied by the burning fuel, with fire- 

 bricks or with stone ; and never in any case to kindle 

 a fire against a plate of iron. 



If all the metal in a register stove, except the front, 

 and the front and bottom bars, were removed, and the 

 back and sides built up properly with fire-bricks, or 

 partly with fire-bricks and partly with fire-stone, it 

 would make a most excellent fire-place. 



This last observation is, I acknowledge, in some 

 degree foreign to my present subject ; but, as it is well 

 meant, I hope it will be well received. 



In a supplementary Essay now preparing for the 

 press, in which will be published such additional 

 remarks and observations to all my former Essays as 

 may be necessary to their complete explanation and 

 elucidation, I shall take occasion to enter fully into the 

 subject of chimney fire-places, and shall endeavour to 

 show, at some length, why it is improper and ill-judged 

 to construct the sides and backs of their grates of iron, 

 or of any other metallic substance. 



In a second part which will be added to this (tenth) 

 Essay, particular directions will be given for construct- 

 ing boilers, steam dishes, ovens, roasters, and various 

 other implements and utensils used in cookery ; and a 

 detailed plan will be laid before the public for improv- 

 ing the kitchen utensils of cottagers and other poor 

 families. 



I have been induced to reserve these various matters 

 for a separate publication, in order to accommodate my 

 writings as much as is possible to the convenience of 

 the various classes of readers into whose hands they are 

 likely to come. The plates, which were indispensably 



