Public Water-Closets, Churchyards. 



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might be conveyed in deep close carts, and, at Greenock, in 

 steam-boats, to the farmers. For details on this subject see 

 Encyc. of 'Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, §37, 38, and 

 39. 



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20 ft. 



a, a, a, a, Aquariums. 



b, Cistern of water, which, by means of a contrivance connected with the door of each closet, 

 supplies a jet of water to the basin, every time the door is opened, and every time it is shut. 



With the increase of population in these towns the church" 

 yards have necessarily become too small ; and this, we trust, 

 will, at no distant period, lead to general cemeteries, which 

 may, at the same time, be rendered very ornamental. The 

 churchyards of the villages and country parishes are also 

 almost every where too small ; and, as the author of Necropolis 

 Glasguensis (Glasgow, 8vo, 1831) observes, they are generally 

 in a neglected state. We regret that the resident clergy do 

 not seem to partake in our views on this subject ; otherwise 

 they might do much, with very little trouble or expense : 

 for we are sure there is no gardener or nurseryman who 

 would not supply such trees as might be wanting, and even 

 plant them ; and the expense of mowing the grass, if the parish 

 could hot afford it, we doubt not would be volunteered by the 

 resident ploughmen or other workmen belonging to the 

 parish. A little smoothing of the rougher parts of the sur- 



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