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On the Construction of Kitchen 



holding these portable fire-places would also answer 

 perfectly well for holding the cast-iron heaters that 

 may occasionally be used for finishing the processes 

 of cooking that have been begun in stewpans and 

 saucepans heated over the fire of a register-stove, or 

 otherwise made boiling-hot. 



The following figure, which represents a vertical 

 section of a stewpan placed over a heater of the kind 

 here recommended, will give a perfect idea of this 

 arrangement : 



Fig. 58. 



The heater is here represented as lying in a bed of 

 ashes, and there is likewise a thin layer of ashes seen 

 between the top of the heater and the bottom of the 

 stewpan. By the quantity of ashes suffered to remain 

 on the upper surface of the heater, the heat communi- 

 cated to the stewpan is to be moderated and regulated. 



The heater is perforated in its centre by a hole of 

 a peculiar form, which serves for introducing an iron 

 hook, which is used in taking it from the fire and 

 placing it in the earthen dish. 



The form of the hook, and the shape of the aperture 

 through which it passes in the heater, may be seen in 

 the following figure. 



The circular excavation in the heater, on each side 

 of it, surrounding the hole (which is in the form of the 



