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more room it should have to move in, whereas in the usual way it has 

 less. Chimneys, therefore, should be built as nearly perpendicularly 

 as possible ; they ought to be free from all roughness on the inside ; 

 and a few inches wider at the top than at the base. This would 

 effectually prevent smoking ; and might be so managed as not to 

 interfere with the form of the exterior. 



CHINA PAPER. The Chinese, for making paper, use the 

 bamboo reed, the cotton shrub, the bark of the kou-chee, and of the 

 mulberry tree ; also hemp, the straw of wheat and rice, the cods of 

 the silkworm, and several other substances, the greater part of which 

 are unknown in this manufacture in Europe. Most of the Chinese 

 paper is very susceptible of moisture ; dust easily adheres to it, and 

 worms insensibly get into it ; but their paper is much superior to ours 

 in softness, smoothness, and the extraordinary size of the sheets ; it 

 being no difficult matter to obtain, from certain manufactories, sheets 

 thirty or forty feet in length. 



CHINCHILLA. This interesting animal, which produces the 

 well known fur passing under that name, is a species of Field Mouse, 

 and is common in the high plains of Chili and Peru. It is about nine 

 inches in length, and has a tail about half the length of its body. It 

 sits upon its haunches, and takes its food in its paws like a squirrel. 

 It feeds chiefly upon bulbous roots. 



CHINESE GOOSE. 



CHINESE GOOSE. Only a few of the varieties of the goose 

 family have been brought from China to the United States. The 

 cut represents one of them which belonged to Mr. C. N. Bement. 

 The form of these is very handsome ; their necks are long, with a 



