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smaller, or surrounding division, merely protects the covered ride or 

 ambulatory. Where the two inclines meet, are hollows, which are tech- 

 nically spoken of as "valleys." The water within these valleys is con- 

 veyed away by means of four large pipes, two on either side, which are 

 let into the outer wall ; while the rain, which flows down the outer 

 incline of the smaller division, drains into a metallic gutter, whence it 

 is carried away by fifteen smaller pipes. 



Over the center of the larger division of the roof is placed a venti- 

 lator. It commences twenty-one feet from the northern extremity of the 

 building, and it extends, on either side, six feet from the center. It is 

 thirty feet long, and its sides are four feet high. The sides are composed 

 of four-feet louvre boards, which, being set in working frames, can, by 

 means of lines which reach to the ground, be opened or closed as the 

 increased temperature calls for air or the cold demands protection. 



The ventilator is roofed with six-ounce glass, which is of more than 

 a sufficient stoutness to resist any tempest that occurs in this climate. 

 The central ridge of the ventilator rises twenty-eight feet from the pave- 

 ment ; and it is laterally supported by the boarded sides which have 

 already been described. The roof of this part of the edifice also serves 

 the purposes of windows, admitting light to the interior. 



Should any person feel disposed to complain of the probable cost 

 likely to attend this last provision, let such person remember that the 

 first oulay, in this particular, is likely to be the last. The material is, 

 moreover, cheaper than it formerly was ; while its elevation removes it 

 from all reasonable chance of breakage. The rain will wash the outer 

 portion, while the position of the interior surface will present the accu- 

 mulation of much soil ; consequently the glass will be spared all those 

 accidents which too frequently disturb the peace of housekeepers during 

 the cleansing of ordinary windows. 



The glass is designedly placed upon the roof, as when stable windows 

 occupy the usual situations, they are generally suffered to be in so foul 

 a condition as almost to counteract the purpose of their institution. 

 Some of the panes are commonly broken ; and where the glass is absent, 

 its place is rudely supplied by rags or by paper, while the window-ledge 

 is crowded with those articles which it is desired should be ready to the 

 hand, or which it is wished to store snugly away. 



When a stable is without windows, the dark house encourages a lazy 

 servant. The architect's neglect also teaches the man a want of regard 

 for that cleanliness which is essential to the well-being of the horse. 

 With such a place, the absence of care soon becomes an unavoidable 

 necessity, which the cunning of ignorance will not be slow to perceive, 

 and to act upon, as being a justification of idleness. Nothing either in 



