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series of connected cisterns, placed immediately under the 

 roof of the grand central passage. Adjoining each conserv- 

 atory, and in the occupation of the same tenant, is a small 

 room devoted to books, plans, models, and other new or 

 interesting objects connected with agriculture or gardening, 

 and also an office or counting-room and other conveniences. 

 One of the conservatories is occupied by Messrs. Cormack, 

 Son, and Sinclair, nursery and seedsmen, of New Cross, near 

 Deptford ; the other by Messrs. Hockley and Bunney, nursery 

 and seedsmen, Kingsland Road. 



There are cellars below all the fruit markets, under all the 

 buildings and pathways, and continued through one side of 

 the long market (e e) for storing up potatoes. There are 

 rooms over all the shops, used partly as store-places and 

 partly as bedrooms. 



Both the open and covered markets are inaccessible by 

 carts and waggons. There are circular openings or manholes, 

 2 ft. in diameter, in the floor of the long market (e e), which 

 communicate with the cellars, and through which the pota- 

 toes are shot down ; and there are openings by trapdoors to 

 the cellars of the frpit market for similar purposes. The 

 openings by which the potatoes are brought up from the 

 cellars are within the buildings. There are also cellars for 

 washing the potatoes, and water is laid on for this purpose, 

 as well as for general uses, throughout the whole of the build- 

 ings. The supply is obtained from an Artesian well, sunk 

 beneath the central path to the depth of 280 ft., which affords 

 1600 gallons per hour, a quantity greatly exceeding any 

 occasion that can be expected to arise. A small steam-engine, 

 on Brathwaite's most improved principles, has been erected, 

 to distribute the water over the higher parts of the buildings, 

 and the whole area of the markets, and more especially to 

 supply the handsome fountain before mentioned on the ter- 

 race in front of the conservatories. In the centre of the 

 market there will be an apparatus, by attaching hose to which 

 the whole surface of the market can be washed and effectually 

 cleaned in a few minutes. By the same means, also, fire may 

 be instantaneously extinguished. The central passage {u 1 1), 

 the exterior colonnades, and every other exterior part, inde- 

 pendently of the interior of the shops, are lighted by gas. 



The interior walls of the shops, cellars, &c., are of brick, 

 faced in conspicuous situations with Yorkshire freestone. The 

 columns are of Scotch and Devonshire granite, the shafts 

 being of one stone each. The paving of the passages is 

 partly of granite and partly of Yorkshire stone. The open 

 and covered markets (e and dd) are causewayed with gra- 



