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On the Construction of Kitchen 



There are also two kitchens of this kind in my house 

 at Brompton in two adjoining rooms, which have been 

 fitted up principally with a view to showing that all the 

 different processes of cookery may be carried on in a 

 room which, on entering it, nobody would suspect to 

 be a kitchen. The following figure is the ground plan 

 of one of them : 



Fig. 89. 



a is the opening of the fire-place, which is brought 

 forward into the room about 14 J inches. This was 

 done, in order to give more room for the family boiler, 

 which is situated at b, and the roaster, which is placed 

 on the other side of the open chimney fire-place at c. 



The two broad spaces on the two sides of the roaster, 

 by which the smoke from the fire below it rises up round 

 it, and another at the farther end of it, by which the 

 smoke descends, are distinguished by dark shades, as 

 are also the two square canals by which the smoke from 

 the roaster and that from the boiler rise up into the 

 chimney. 



The top of the grate is seen which belongs to the 

 open chimney fire-place : it is represented by horizon- 

 tal lines. It is what I have called a cottage grate, and 



