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e, Copper for brewing, washing, &c, unless a copper pot or iron box is 

 fixed over the oven, when a separate copper becomes unnecessary. 



f x Oven for baking, and also for heating the floor of the living-room and 

 family bedroom. 



The courses of this flue are so contrived that the covers, supposing them to be one-foot tiles, 

 will form the floor of the two rooms which it heats. The flues maybe of any convenient depth 

 exceeding 18 in., their sides built of brick on edge not plastered, and the intervals between the flues 

 filled up with loose stones or rough gravel. If the flues are made deep, which in some cases may 

 be found cheaper than preparing a raised solid basis on which to build shallow flues, then the side 

 walls may be tied together by brick-on-edge work (h), and the foundation of the partition wall, 

 which separates the family bedroom from the kitchen will contribute to the same end. To equalise 

 the heat given out by the flue, and to prevent the kitchen floor from being too hot where the flue 

 proceeds from the oven, a double covering is there shown, with a vacuity of 6 in. between the 

 under cover and the floor, from the oven/ to g ; a section of which may be seen in Jig. 32. at g. 



As faggots are intended to be burnt in the oven, the soot produced will be very trifling ; but the 

 flues may be cleaned once a year by taking up a tile at each end of the different courses of the 

 flue. A little reflection will convince any one of the immense superiority of this mode of heating 

 the air of a room over any other whatever. By open fire-places, by stoves, steam-pipes, or water- 

 pipes, unless indeed these are in the floor, and, by heated air, the coldest stratum of air is always 

 found immediately on the floor, where, for the sake of the feet and legs, the air ought to be hot- 

 test; by the method of under-ground flues the lowest stratum is necessarily the hottest, which 

 must be preferable for the feet and legs of grown persons, and for the whole bodies of little chil- 

 dren. The heat being diffused over the whole surface of the floor, must contribute greatly to the 

 equality of the temperature throughout the apartment, and the mass of loose atones will continue 



