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marble ftcps. There is a (Irong frame of fir 

 timber (as oak emits a liquor that dyes marble 

 of a deep red colour), which is fupported by a 

 number of fm.all columns of the Doric order 

 about three feet high, with their capitals and 

 bafes all of white marble. On the frame are 

 placed a number of white marble troughs, 

 which by their projedion are fo contrived as 

 completely to conceal the wood work, and are 

 as highly polifhed as china-ware — a precaution 

 very neceflary ; for without it the corrofive 

 quality of the milk would render them like a 

 honey comb. Thefe troughs have each a hole 

 cut through for the purpofe of emptying and 

 cleaning them, being too weighty to be moved 5 

 and they have ftoppers of cork with a filver 

 ring and chain, almoft like rhofe ufed for de- 

 canters : the walls are encrufled with porce- 

 lain tiles of a foot fquare made in China for the 

 exprefs purpofe, and fo contrived that by means 

 of laths paiTed through them, they feem to 

 form one folid body. The (helves are of white 

 marble, and fupported by cantilivers of the 

 fame curioufly inlaid. The roof of this little 



s^uriofuy forms a dome, which is terminated in 



the 



