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lishing these regulations ; and when I made a present 

 to the Company of all my patterns, which I had got 

 made in London, and which had been rendered as per- 

 fect as possible by previous experiments, namely, by 

 getting castings taken from them by the best London 

 founders, and altering them occasionally, till they were 

 acknowledged to be quite complete. 



If it had been possible for me to have done more to 

 prevent impositions, I should have done it with pleas- 

 ure ; and I should have felt, at the same time, that I 

 had done no more than what it was my duty to do. 



But to return from this long digression. I shall now 

 hasten to finish my account of the means which have 

 been used in one of the rooms in my house (that des- 

 tined for the large kitchen) for concealing the roaster 

 and the family boiler. 



The following figure is an elevation of that part 

 of the side of the room where these implements are 

 concealed : 



Fig. 90. 



The open chimney fire-place and the front of the 

 grate are distinctly shown in the middle of this figure, 

 in the lower part of it. The panelled door, immedi- 



