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into the hav-loft and servants' rooms, nnder which can be made 

 a convenient closet for brooms, shovels, &c. 



B, the stable, proper, is twenty -five feet deep by fifteen wide 

 in the clear. Paved as described above. It is here represented 

 as divided into a loose box, of fifteen feet by eleven and a half, 

 in the clear, and two stalls of nine feet by six, also in the clear. 

 The part round the exterior 'separated by dotted lines, shows 

 the portion which is covered by the ceiling at twelve feet 

 from the ground ; the oblong within the lines is that which rises 

 throughout to the roof and cupola above, allowing the egress of 

 the heated air. This part may be either, simply, transversely 

 firred out and c^led on straight lines slanting to the ventilator, 

 or prettily curved and domed according to the taste and means 

 of the proprietor. In either case side lights can be let in to 

 illuminate the hay-loft. It must be observed, that if it be desired 

 to use this space, always, as a four-stalled stable, all that is ne- 

 cessary to do, is to take away the long division between the loose 

 box and stalls, and to divide the former into two of the latter. 

 If it be thought well to retain the box, with the power of con- 

 verting it at pleasure into* two stalls, all that is needed will be 



to have a sc^cket filled 

 l)y a movable stone plug 

 "^ I = 1 T=? 'it^ the edge of the flag 



^y l ^"S 11 . |l I drain cover, for the re- 

 ception of a grooved 

 stall post, which will 

 Ijolt to the rafter of the 

 ceiling overhead, which 

 is so arranged as to coin- 

 cide exactly with its 

 ])Osition. This can be 

 fitted with grooved and 

 toiigued planking, lying 

 liorizontally, having its 

 other extremities se- 

 cured by two strips 

 screwed to the wall, and 

 I kept in its place above 

 by a similar grooved 



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