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has been exhibited to the view of those who frequent 

 his shop. Since that time a great number of them 

 have been put up in the kitchens of private families, 

 and, as I am informed, are much liked. As their use- 

 fulness appears to me to have been sufficiently ascer- 

 tained by experience to authorize me to recommend 

 them to the public, I shall now lay before the reader the 

 most exact and particular description of them that I can 

 give ; premising, however, that it will be difficult to give 

 so clear an account of this contrivance as to enable 

 a person to form a perfect idea of it without having 

 seen it. 



I shall perhaps be most likely to succeed in this 

 attempt, if I begin by exhibiting a view of the thing 

 to be described. 



Fig. 48. 



This plate represents a view of a register-stove fire- 

 place for two stewpans, actually existing in Heriot's 

 Hospital, at Edinburgh. It is placed in a mass of 

 brick-work, 2 feet 6 inches high, 4 feet 6 inches long, 



