388 On the Construction of Kitchen 



and 2 feet wide from front to back, situated in a corner 

 of the room on the right-hand side of the fire-place. 

 In the middle of the front of this mass of brick-work 

 are seen the front of the fire-place door (which is 

 double), and the ash-pit register-door; and near the 

 end of it, on the left, in the upper front corner, may 

 be discovered the stone stopper, which closes a canal, 

 which is occasionally opened for cleaning out the soot 

 from the flues in the interior parts of the mass of brick- 

 work. A like stopper, and which serves for a like pur- 

 pose, may be seen at the end of the mass of brick-work, 

 near the right-hand corner above. Each of these 

 stoppers is furnished with an iron ring, fastened by a 

 staple, which serves as a handle in removing and 

 replacing it. 



On the top of this mass of brick-work there is laid 

 a horizontal plate of cast iron, 18 inches wide, 3 feet 

 long, and about \ of an inch in thickness ; and on the 

 right and left of this iron plate, and level with its upper 

 surface, there are placed two flat stones, each 9 inches 

 wide and 18 inches long, being just as long as the 

 iron plate is wide. 



At the back of this iron plate runs a flue, 4 inches 

 wide and 5 inches deep, which is covered above, at the 

 level of the upper surface of the iron plate, with a flat 

 stone, 6 inches wide. 



One of the most essential parts of this contrivance is 

 the iron plate, with its circular register, both which are 

 represented by the following figure ; but only one half 

 of the plate is represented, being shown broken off in 

 the middle. 



In this figure the circular movable register (which is 

 distinguished from the oblong plate to which it belongs 



