504 Life of Count Rumford. 



Warm Bathing," has already been noticed in another 

 connection. 



The fourteenth and fifteenth Essays, respectively 

 " Of the Management of Fires in Closed Fireplaces " 

 and " Of the Use of Steam as a Vehicle for Trans- 

 porting Heat," are substantially additions to the matter 

 of the tenth Essay. They give practical information 

 of high value in all culinary and in many mechanical 

 processes. In the former of the two will be found one 

 of those very candid confessions which the writer, on 

 occasions for them, was always ready to give, of mis- 

 takes which he had himself made in some previous con- 

 clusions. He renders honorable amends to a cook who 

 was the medium of teaching him his error and the way 

 to truth. 



The use of steam, according to the method which the 

 Count suggested, is now almost universally adopted in 

 the kitchens and wash-houses of public institutions, and 

 in dye-houses and breweries, where pipes are made to 

 convey heat to large wooden vats or tubs at a vast sav- 

 ing of time, fuel, and labor. 



Mention has already been made, on a previous page, 

 that Count Rumford's efforts, publications, and schemes 

 to provide nutritious food, and to secure an economical 

 use of its materials, were all brought to public notice in 

 England at a period of general scarcity, and when there 

 were even well-founded apprehensions of famine. In 

 the very important and exciting debate on the Corn and 

 Bread Bill before Parliament in 1800, I find that the 

 Count was most honorably and gratefully named for his 

 valuable labors and counsels. Both Lord Hawkesbury 

 and Mr. Wilberforce passed upon him the highest en- 

 comiums as a public benefactor. In connection with 



