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put in to {cty may be fupported by pillars of 

 flone, which for the fake of cheapnefs may be 

 made fquare ; the frame itfelf may be of oak, 

 and the pans (which are made for the exprefs 

 purpofe) of glazed earthen ware — for I by no 

 means approve of cifterns or troughs lined 

 with lead ; milk being fo far corrofive, that it 

 will in a fhort time produce a cerufe. The 

 neceflary fhelves, &c. may be placed to the 

 fancy of the owner. At one end mud be a 

 door of communication to the fcullery where 

 the copper is placed, and where the dairy- 

 maid is to do a principal part of her bufinefs. 

 I have here given a fketch of a dairy that 

 may be fitted up in a ftyle of elegant neatnefs, 

 and at a fmall expence. There are fome which 

 are far more coftly, and I know of none which, 

 for the fize of it, furpafles that made by the 

 late Captain Foulis on Epping forcft. It may 

 not perhaps be deemed impertinent to give a 

 fhort defcription of it, though few have the 

 power to imicate it. The building is nearly 

 iqiiare, as it was not originally eredled for the 

 purpofe; the floor is a marble mofaic pave- 

 ment, to which you defcend by half a dozen 

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