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be no appearance of any cooking going on. But I lay 

 no stress on this particular advantage resulting from 

 this arrangement of the culinary apparatus. The real 

 advantage gained by it is this : that the kitchen is left 

 an habitable, and even an elegant room, when the busi- 

 ness of cooking is over. 



The kitchen in Heriot's Hospital at Edinburgh, 

 which was fitted up in the autumn of the year 1800, 

 is arranged in this manner, with this difference, how- 

 ever, that all the panelled doors are omitted. The 

 boiler is shut up by a door of sheet iron, japanned ; and 

 the door of the roaster and the two fire-place doors and 

 two ash-pit register doors are exposed to view. 



As the brick-work is whitewashed and kept clean, and 

 as the doors are all either japanned black or kept very 

 clean, the whole has a neat appearance. 



The roaster and principal boiler in the great kitchen 

 of the house of the Royal Institution are put up nearly 

 in the same manner as those in Heriot's Hospital, ex- 

 cepting that in the former there is a hot closet, which 

 is situated immediately above the roaster, whereas there 

 is none belonging to the latter. 



In one of the kitchens in my house there is, in the 

 place of the roaster, a roasting-oven, with a common 

 iron oven of the same dimensions placed directly over 

 it, and heated by the same fire. 



The door of my roaster and that of my roasting- 

 oven are made single, of thin sheet iron, and they are 

 covered on the outside with panels of wood, for con- 

 fining the heat. Instead of doors to their closed fire- 

 places, I use square stoppers, made of fire-stone or hard 

 fire-brick, fastened to flat pieces of sheet iron, to which 

 knobs of wood are fixed, which serve instead of handles. 



