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temperature of the atmosphere — which has a desirable eflfect, par- 

 ticularly on the sunny side of the house, or where it is not other- 

 wise protected from the sun's rays. 



Another plan, in some respec s superior and probably more 

 economical in construction, was presented by Mr. S. He would 

 lay a stone or brick foundation below the action of frost. Eight 

 inch walls, placed parallel and four feet apart, would do wellj 

 across these he would place a tier of beams, say three by eight 

 inches, and eighteen inches apart, upon which he would lay a 

 coarse floor, and across that he would place three by four inch 

 scantling, at the same distance, on which he would lay a tight 

 matched spruce floor — thus making a double and crossed flooring. 

 If the lower floor should be covered with coarse mortar between 

 the scantling, it would be an improvement, or if preferred, a sin- 

 gle floor of twelve by eight stufi" may be used, with one or two 

 courses of what is termed deafening, with the upright plank spiked 

 totheflooi, after the plan of the balloon framing used in the 

 Western States and California. For the sides of the house, he 

 would erect upon the wall and firmly spike plank, say one and a 

 quarter inches thick by twelve in width, to each end of the three by 

 eight inch stuff" forming the flo^r, to form the sides ; and the same 

 number of similar plank, erected upon the rough floor and spiked 

 to the three by four inch floor scantling, for the ends of the build- 

 ing. The rafters he would make of one inch boards, well nailed 

 to each other at the ridge, and to the upright one and a quarter 

 inch plank at ten to twelve feet from the foundation, allowing 

 them to extend some three feet to projecting eaves. Between these 

 upright planks, he would make the four plastered walls as in the 

 former plan, continuing them up between the rafters. To the 

 outer edge of the plank he would secure the weather boarding, 

 leaving the air space before named, which he would continue to 

 the peak of the roof and out from under the saddle boards, so as 

 to give ventilation to the whole weather surface of the hjuse. 

 To give stability to the structure, and to protect tlie plastered walls 

 from being injured from the inside, he would ceil it with rough 

 boards put on diagonally. If suificient care has been taken to 

 make all the joints tight, such a structure would be as effective as 



