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STABLES AS THET SHOULD BE. 



but it likewise tends to preserve the bricks, the mortar, and the expensive 

 fittings that should adorn every stable. 



PLAN OF DRAINS. 



S indicates the position of a trap door, which leads to the coal-cellar under the gig-hoose. 



The dotted line, connecting the two letters D E, represents the situation of the supposed section of 

 drains, previously introduced. 



The dotted line, indicated by the letters E F, points to the supposed situation of the cross section of 

 drains, which has likewise been exhibited. 



According to the supposed view, which forms the frontispiece to the 

 present volume, there is a free but covered space, twelve feet wide, ex- 

 tending all round the building. The soil of this free space, covered ride 

 or ambulatory, should also have been removed, and subsequently have 

 been filled up, after the plan already described, as necessary for the inte- 

 rior of the stables. It need not, however, be paved with clinkers, as 

 sand forms a better ground for a horse to exercise upon than can possibly 

 be made with the hardest of known bricks. 



The roof, having sheltered the ride, terminates immediately over a 

 metal gutter. This gutter ^communicates with five pipes upon the west- 

 ern and upon the eastern sides, with two pipes upon the southern, and 

 with three upon the northern aspects of the building. 



The roofing of the ambulatory is upheld by thirty-one posts, each 

 twelve feet high, and the same distance apart. Between every two of 

 these posts, on all sides of the stable save the front, are placed smaller 

 uprights, which reach only to six feet. By these smaller posts are sup- 

 ported one end of three movable bales on either side, the opposite extremi- 

 ties of the bales resting against the larger posts ; each bale being six feet 

 long, and reaching from the small uprights to the main supports. The 

 first bale is one foot from the ground ; while the others are at equal dis- 

 tances, and so placed as to leave four inches of clear pole to project above 

 the highest rail. 



The pipes leading from the metallic gutter are fastened to the pillars 

 and empty into a drain, which encircles the building and receives the 

 water from the roof; it also conveys away that which is used in washing 



