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and octangular above afcending like a Tower, the fires being made 

 againft the walls, and thefmoak. climbing up them, without any 

 tunnels or difturbance to the Cookj ; which being ftopped by a 

 large conical roof at the top, goes out at loop-holes on every fide 

 according as the wind Cits j the loop-holes at the fide next the jpzW 

 being (hut with falling doors, and the adverfe fide opened. 



131. Thefpacious Stair- cafe at Blechington-houk is alfo re- 

 markable,not only for that it ftands on an Area of 30 foot fquare, 

 but for its rarity too, it being not perhaps at all, at leaft not eafie 

 to be met with amongft the writers of Architeclure : .wherefore^ 

 though I cannot approve of its contrivance in all particulars, yet 

 for the fake of its magnificence-, and variety from moft, if not all 

 others, I cannot in jufticc but afford it a fliort defcription. 



132. It being placed therefore backward, oppofite to the moft 

 honorable entrance of the Houfe, between two wings that extend 

 themfelves beyond it, and the grofs of the Pile, you enter upon 

 it having paft by the ball, and other offices ufually placed by it, at 

 the door-way A, Tab. 13. Fig. 4. and land upon the half pace 1, 

 which together with the reft marked 234, iyc are 6 foot J fquare: 

 The figures in their natural order (hew how you afcend from one 

 half pace to another, by afcents of 7lfteps, each about 5 inches J 

 deep, and near 10 inches J broad : The half paces marked with 

 the fame figure lye on the fame level, and therefore as 4 is the 

 higheft half pace in this firft Scheme of it, fo it is the loweft in the 

 fecond,7tf. 13. Fig. 5. 



133. In which alfo the order of the figures (hews the manner 

 of afcent juft as in the former, only it muft be obferved, that as 

 the afcent to the half pace 4 in the firft Scheme, was fuppofe from 

 Eaft and Weft, fo the afcent higher from it in the fecond, is to North 

 and South : Of which two Schemes placed alternatly over one an- 

 other, the whole ft air -cafe is framed from bottom to top, which 

 iseafily apprehended, if you but imagine the half pace 4 in the 

 fecond Scheme, to be placed over 4 in the firft, and fuch another 

 frame as is delineated in the firft Scheme to be placed on the fe- 

 cond : The Letters V V ihew the vacancies that open a Pro/peel 

 from the top to the bottom of the whole ftair-cafe, and abed 

 Ihew the places of the doors into the rooms at each corner of 

 it. 



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