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Of the Construction of cheap Boilers and Stewpans to 

 be used with small portable Kitchen Furnaces. 



The best boilers and stewpans that can be used with 

 these furnaces are undoubtedly those which were de- 

 scribed in the tenth chapter of this Essay ; but utensils 

 on a simpler construction may be made to answer very 

 well, and may perhaps be preferred by many on account 

 of their cheapness. 



The following figure represents a vertical section of 

 a stewpan on a much more simple construction than 

 any of those already described : 



Fig. 71. 



This stewpan (which is drawn to a scale of 6 inches 

 to the inch) being of a proper diameter below to fit the 

 sand-rim of the portable furnace, and its bottom being 

 raised up about half an inch in order to allow its vertical 

 sides to descend into that sand-rim, it is plain that it 

 may be used with the furnace in the same manner as 

 the tea-kettles just described are used with it. It may 

 likewise be used with the register-stoves described in 

 the tenth chapter of this Essay. 



In order that this stewpan may the more easily be 

 kept clean, the joinings of its bottom and sides should 

 be well filled up on the inside with solder. 



The following figure represents another and smaller 



