196 THE EARLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. IV. 



eight inches in diameter and above sixty feet long, which 

 is concealed under the rising seats of the pit. 



The repository already contains a considerable number 

 of specimens of new and useful mechanical contrivances. 

 The chemical laboratory, in which there is provision made 

 for placing and using no less than sixteen furnaces of 

 different kinds at the same time, is quite finished. 



All the workshops of the Institution are now quite 

 finished, and they have been furnished with the most com- 

 plete sets of tools that could be procured, and several excel- 

 lent workmen are now employed in them ; and a great 

 variety of useful articles designed as models of imitation 

 have already been manufactured in the house, and are ready 

 to be delivered to any of the proprietors or subscribers to 

 the Institution who may be disposed to purchase them. 



The great kitchen at the house of the Institution has 

 been furnished, and now contains a variety of new and use- 

 ful utensils and implements of cookery, jnany of which are 

 in daily use, and others (which are not) are so exposed to 

 view as to be easily understood and their merit appreciated. 



He then gives an account of each room. The pre- 

 sent lower library was divided into two rooms, the first 

 for foreign newspapers, the other for books. Over 

 these rooms was the second lecture room, which at 

 some future period was to become the library. 



It will be useful for occasional lectures, and for exhibiting 

 new experiments, and for the meetings of the committees. 



The conversation room has been furnished, and every- 

 thing has been prepared for its being used as a coffee room. 

 It is now set apart for the daily papers. 



The proprietors since June had increased 16, the life 

 subscribers 16, and annual subscribers 122. All the new 

 works to be done and every demand would amount to; 

 3,900?. The balance at the banks and the debts to the In- 



