388 .On the Construction of Kitchen 



and 2 feet wide from front to back, situated in a corner 

 of the room on the right-hand side of the fire-place. 

 In the middle of the front of this mass of brick-work 

 are seen the front of the fire-place door (which is 

 double), and the ash-pit register-door; and near the 

 end of it, on the left, in the upper front corner, may 

 be discovered the stone stopper, which closes a canal, 

 which is occasionally opened for cleaning out the soot 

 from the flues in the interior parts of the mass of brick- 

 work. A like stopper, and which serves for a like pur- 

 pose, may be seen at the end of the mass of brick-work, 

 near the right-hand corner above. Each of these 

 stoppers is furnished with an iron ring, fastened by a 

 staple, which serves as a handle in removing and 

 replacing it. 



On the top of this mass of brick-work there is laid 

 a horizontal plate of cast iron, 18 inches wide, 3 feet 

 long, and about \ of an inch in thickness ; and on the 

 right and left of this iron plate, and level with its upper 

 surface, there are placed two flat stones, each 9 inches 

 wide and 18 inches long, being just as long as the 

 iron plate is wide. 



At the back of this iron plate runs a flue, 4 inches 

 wide and 5 inches deep, which is covered above, at the 

 level of the upper surface of the iron plate, with a flat 

 stone, 6 inches wide. 



One of the most essential parts of this contrivance is 

 the iron plate, with its circular register, both which are 

 represented by the following figure ; but only one half 

 of the plate is represented, being shown broken off in 

 the middle. 



In this figure the circular movable register (w r hich is 

 distinguished from the oblong plate to which it belongs 



