Queries and J?is'wers. 



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A Machine for sweeping Streets is said, in some of the newspapers, to have 

 been recently invented at Boston, in the United States. If it be materially 

 different from the machine for the same purpose, figured and described in 

 a former volume (Vol. VI. p. 100.), we should be much gratified by receiv- 

 ing some account of it from J. M., Mr. C, Mr. W., or some other of our 

 Boston correspondents. — Cond. 



Laying out a Classical Residence. — Sir, In a former volume (Vol. VI. 

 p. 226.), you recommended to the notice of your enquiring correspondent 

 Romanus the ground-plan of Pliny's Laurentine Villa as affording hints for 

 laying out a marine villa on the coast of Sussex. Allow me to request you 

 will favour your readers with a plan of Pliny's Tuscan Villa, as affording 

 hints for laying out a suburban residence where land is dear, and where it 

 is desirable not to be overlooked. I am sure there are various other per- 

 sons, and especially architects and their employers, who would profit from 

 such a plan, as well as myself. I cannot help remarking on the singular cir- 

 cumstance of the aptitude of all the colonnades and porticoes in Pliny's 

 plans to be changed for green-houses and conservatories. I am, Sir, your 

 constant reader. — Suburbanus Oxfordiensis. July, 1831. 



The following are the details of the plan requii-ed by our correspond- 

 ent: — 



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-piir giriSSIillliililJ jr a, PrsEtorium, or villa urbana. 

 M3a HP a. The peristyle. 



b, Atrium, or hall. 



c, Portico towards the palaestra. 



d, Room called Tablinum. 



e, Palsstra, walks, and orchard. 

 f, Inner court of the pr^torium. 

 r. Summer dining-room. 



Winter dining-room. 

 ^ ., Withdrawing-rooms. 

 S k. The winter apartments. 

 g I, The summer apartments. 

 Eli m. Portico. 

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g B, Villa rustics, or farm-house. 



1. The farm yard. 



2. The kitchen. 



3. Wine-press and cellar. 



4. Oil-press and cellar. 



5. Ox-stalls. 



6. Stable. 



7. Herdsmen and grooms. 



8. Stairs to the granaries. 



9. Procurator or bailiff's lodge. 



10. Husbandman's lodge and tene- 

 ments. 



11. Housekeeper's lodge and tene- 

 ments. 



12. IVIaster of the cattle. 



13. I.odging-rooms for servants. 



14. Bathing-room, 

 l.?. Warm room. 



16. Sweating-room. 



17. Miliarium to heat the water, 



18. Storehouses for wood, hay, reed, 

 &c. 



19. Portico, or open sheds. 



20. Hog-sties. 



21. Sheep-fold. 

 22 Shepherd's lodge. 



23. Shepherd's dog-kennels. 



24. Aviary, or henyard. 



25. Poulterer's lodge. 



26. Gallinarium or hen-hoi'.sa 



27. Porter's lodge. 



28. Dog kennels. 



29. Dunghills. 



30. Pond in the farm-yard. 



31. Beds of culinary vegetables 



32. Porter's lodge. 



33. Dog-kennels. 



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