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roasting oven with its door shut. The front end of the 

 large cylinder, which constitutes the body of this oven, 

 instead of being turned over a stout wire, is turned out- 

 wards, and riveted to a flat piece of thick sheet iron, 

 which in this figure is distinguished by vertical lines, 

 and which I shall call the front of the oven. 



The door of the oven is distinguished by horizontal 

 lines. The general form of the front of the oven is 

 circular ; but it has two projections on opposite sides 

 of it, to one of which the hinges of the door, and to the 

 other the turn-buckles for fastening it when it is closed, 

 are fastened. It has another projection above, which 

 serves as a frame to the doorway, through which a 

 brush is occasionally introduced for the purpose of 

 cleaning the flues. On one side of this projection 

 there is a small hole, which is distinguished by the 

 letter a, through which the handle or projecting axis 

 of the circular register of the vent-tube (which is not 

 seen) passes. 



In the body of the oven, at the distance of half its 



