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Economical Mode of building 



way would be a garden shed, for tools or other such things. 

 The uprights should be formed of T iron (so called), which is 

 rolled for boiler-making, iron boat-building, &c. ; the roof of 

 straw, hay, pease or bean stalk, or faggot, stacks, supported on 

 light castings, made to fit the upper extremities of the T iron 

 uprights, as in^^. 5i. ; and the lower extremities of the up- 



rights either driven into blocks of wood sunk in the ground, 



or wedged into holes 

 punched in lumps 

 of stone. The ap- 

 pearance of such 

 sheds would be as 

 m^gs. 55, 56. and 

 57. 



The circular form 

 iJ^g- 57.) would be 

 as easily built as a 

 rectangular one, and 

 would have great 



stability. When only pease-straw, or other litter, was stacked, 



