466 On the Construction of Kitchen 



135 degrees, which I formerly recommended for open 

 chimney fire-places. The reasons for this preference will 

 be fully explained in another place. To give them here 

 would take up too much time, and would moreover be 

 foreign to my present subject. 



For the information of the public, and to prevent, in 

 as far as it is in my power, exorbitant demands being 

 made for these useful articles, I would just observe 

 that the smallest or 1 6-inch gridiron grate, together 

 with all the apparatus belonging to it, ought to cost, by 

 retail, no more than seven shillings. This apparatus 

 consists of a cast-iron fender, a trivet for supporting 

 a boiler or a tea-kettle over the fire, and a small plate 

 of cast iron (to be fastened into the back of the chim- 

 ney), by means of which, and a small bolt or nail, the 

 grate is fastened in its place on the hearth. 



The second-sized or 1 8-inch gridiron grate, with all 

 its apparatus (consisting of the three articles mentioned 

 above), ought to be sold, by retail, for seven shillings 

 and sixpence. 



The wholesale price of these articles, at the Carron 

 Company's warehouse, in London (Thames Street, near 

 Blackfriars' Bridge), to the trade, and to gentlemen who 

 buy them by the dozen, to distribute them to the poor, 

 is: 



For the gridiron-grate No. I, with 

 the articles belonging to it . . . four shillings. 



For that No. 2, with the articles 

 belonging to it four shillings and sixpence. 



These are the wholesale and retail prices which I 

 fixed with the agent of the Carron Company, at their 

 works in Scotland, in the autumn of the year 1800, 

 when I made a journey there for the purpose of estab- 



