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The platform, is the same as in the other plans, the inclined plane begin- 

 ning at c, and continuing to the extremity of the outbuildings. 



Fig. 38. shows the bedroom floor, in which the bedrooms a and b, over the 

 back kitchen and dairy, are on a lower level than the bedrooms c and d, over 

 the kitchen and parlour. The positions of the different beds, chests of 

 drawers, and dressing-tables, in the different rooms, are indicated, and the 

 vacuity in the exterior wall is shown as in the ground plan. 



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e, Two closets. 



This design is more particularly calculated for low, moist, shady, or con- 

 fined situations, where it might not be considered advisable to sleep on the 

 ground floor j it is of course somewhat more expensive in execution than 

 either of the two preceding plans, and not quite so well adapted as they 

 for walls built in the pise manner. 



Fig. 39. Section on the lines a b in Jigs. 37, 38., showing the level of the 

 open 3 r ard, a } passage from the back kitchen, b ; sunk area under the stair 

 to give head-room for attending the oven, c; oven, d; water-box over it on 

 a level with the kitchen floor, e; flues for heating the kitchen, /; plat- 

 form, g; natural surface,^; lower bed-room, i; larger loft over, k; closet, I; 

 situation of openings to the false flue for ventilation, m n; cornice for 

 swallows, o o. 



