Queries and Answers. 



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Nothing in the way of heating by hot water can be easier. We recom- 

 mend such of our tradesmen readers as are in the habit of putting up hot- 

 water apparatus to write to Cymro, Post-office, Brecon, and Cymro to 

 apply there for letters. — Cond. 



The Price of Garden Ornaments, in Stone, 

 at Dumfries. — Sir, Your correspondent O. 

 i P. Q. has very properly improved your hint 

 respecting our cheap and ornamental tomb- 

 stones. As Mr. Newall is at present in Italy, 

 I sent the query to a very ingenious builder 

 and mason, who owns a quarry of the best 

 stone in Dumfriesshire, Mr. M'Gowan. A 

 fountain made of that stone, similar to the 

 engraving (Vol. VII. p. 724.), would cost at 

 Dumfries 11/. 1 Is., and might be sent to Lon- 

 don for 21. or 3/. more. You may recollect 

 my sundial {fig. 34., scale 1 in. to 1ft.); 

 a similar one would cost here 1/. 15*. I 

 am, Sir, yours, &c. — Wm . Grierson. Bait- 

 iford, Bee. 12. 1831. 



^ When we consider that the fountain re- 

 * ferred to is 8 ft. high, the price seems re- 

 markably low; it would cost more than 

 double the money, in any stone whatever, if 

 made about London. We have no doubt it 

 would pay to have columns and other 

 architectural members worked at Dumfries, 

 and sent to London, and different parts of 

 England. — Cond. 



View of a House in Ireland. — Sir, I send 

 you a sketch ( fig. 35.), taken from a drawing 

 ; found in the room of a late market-gardener 

 i of this place, John MacQueen, who died in 

 \\ rather a singular manner about a year ago. 

 The reason I send you the drawing is, to 

 request you will inform me, if you know 

 where it was erected ; and if you do, I wish also to know whether 

 MacQueen was the architect, as the drawing seemed to be by him. Ine 

 late Mr. James Brown, who has been over the whole of Ireland as an 



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itinerant druggist, assured me, some months ago, that such a building did 

 not exist in the whole country; and I therefore conclude it belongs either 

 to England or Scotland. Speaking of MacQueen's death : he was a very 



