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supplied by a large wholesale dealer in that article at Southgate, 

 Mr. Symonds, is about 1 5s. ; the price per cwt. varying from 4s. 

 to 6s. } of three sorts, sweepings, mixed, and pure, at different 

 prices. The box three times filled will serve an ordinary 

 family a whole season. When we consider the expense of 

 building an ice-house ; the uncertainty of its answering the end 

 proposed; the expense of filling it annually with ice, and of 

 taking out a portion every two or three days, or in the hottest 

 weather every day ; the saving by the use of the ice-preserver 

 must be obvious. In fact, there are few families who have an 

 ice-house, who would not save a considerable sum every year by 

 it, and be much more certain of always having ice when they 

 wanted it. The box is the invention of Mr. Fuller, No. 60. 

 Jermyn Street, London; and, when it once becomes properly 

 known, we have no doubt that it, or some similar contrivance, 

 will take the place of ice-houses in suburban residences all over 

 the country. As this takes place, a demand will be created for 

 dealers in ice, who will collect and preserve it better, and at far 

 less expense, than any individual can do, and who will supply 

 the possessors of boxes. The mere circumstance of an immense 

 body of ice being put together will contribute to its preserva- 

 tion, while the smaller quantities put into private ice-houses, and 

 often most improperly mixed with salt while being put in, is al- 

 ways liable to melt, by the penetration of the heat with which it 

 is surrounded. Though the invention has been only a very 

 short time before the public, we already know some gentlemen 

 having ice-houses near town who have given up filling them, 

 and who, having procured a box, get it filled two or three times 

 in the course of the summer, at an expense, for the season, of 

 not more than 21. or Si. In the very complete offices at Elvas- 

 ton Castle, the seat of the Earl of Harrington, near Derby, the 

 ice-house may be said to form a part of the castle, being, as al- 

 ready observed in p. 460., under a tower which forms the larder. 

 In a vaulted room near the butler's pantry, there are two cold 

 closets or presses formed by Mr. Fuller. They consist of double 

 boxes, the space between the outer and inner box being filled 

 with ice ; so that cold meat, pies, tarts, butter, or any article 

 requiring to be kept cool, is set on the shelves of one of these 

 presses with no more trouble than they would be set on the shelf 

 of a common press. It may be interesting to some of our readers 

 to know that the greatest dealer in ice in London, or perhaps in 

 the world, is Mr. Leftwich of Albany Street, Regent's Park ; and 

 the next, perhaps, Mr. Symonds of Southgate. The ice-house 

 at Southgate is 36 ft. deep, measuring from the surface, and 14 ft. 

 high above the surface. It is circular, and 24 ft. in diameter, at 

 the surface of the ground ; 18 ft. at the bottom ; and the dome 



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