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wind is keptout, that fhould come to cool it, by fhutting up all paf 
_|fages , that'may let itm, which they alwayes doe, for fear the raine 
(come witht; and letting in the Sun at the Weft end,where and when 
_ \aefhineschotteft. Therefore this kind of building is moft pernicious to 
thofe thatlove their health ; which is the comfort of their lives: but 
| -you will fay, that a double houfewill leffen much of this heat, by rea- 
|-fon that the Weftfideis: not vifited by the fun in the morning,nor the 
\.Eaft in the afternoon; I do.confefS that to be fome little remedy , 
‘|lines, a: great part of the forenoon;.and being refleGed from one fide 
}to-another, ‘when it comes to the Meridian (and before and after, at 
\deaft-two- hours, ) with the {Corching heat it gives.to the. gutter. , 
_| which is betweenthem, and isin the middle of the houfe from end.to 
-eiid, will fo warm the Eaft-fide of the Houfe,as all the fhade.tt has in 
-the afternoon. will not coobit, nor make it habitable; and then you 
-may guefs in what a temper the Weft fide is. ‘i 
Whereas, if you build your houfeupon anEaft and Welt line, you 
’ [have thefeadvantaves, that in the morning the Sun never fhines-in or 
Pneer an oblique line, (which is upon the Eaft end of your houfe, _) 
above two hours, and thatis from fixto eight a clock, and as much in 
‘the afternoon,-and not all ‘that time neither’; and-upon the roof it 
-ean never fhine in an oblique line, but glancing on both fides, caft off 
| the heatvery muchsdedo.confefs that I/love a double houfe, much 
| better then a fingle, but ifithavea« overs that is, two. gable 
fends, anda gutter between, though it be built up an Eaft and Weft 
| line: yet the Sun (which muft lye uponit allthe heat of the day) will 
(fo multiply ‘the heat , by reflecting the beams from infide to infide, 
and fo violently upon the gutter, from both, which you know mutt be 
in the middle of the houfe’, from:end. to end, as you thall feeb that 
heat above; too fenfibly im the ground ftories below,though your fie- 
ling be-a foot thick , and’your {tories fixteen foot high. Therefore 
if I build-a double houfe, I muft order it fo, as to have the divifion 
between cither room of a {trong wall, or of Dorique Pillers Archt 
+from one to another, andin each intercolumniation a f{quare ftud 
1 of {tone for the better ftrengthning and fupporting of the Arches 
taboves for I would have the rooms Archt over with-ftone, and the 
innermoft poynts of the Arches, to-reft upon the Pillars , and the 
whole houfe to becoverd with Couples-and Rafters , and upon that 
| thingles, the Ridge Pole of the houfe running along over the Pillars, 
‘fo that the covering is:to ferve both Arches, that covers your rooms : 
___ | by which means there is but one Gable end, which will glaunce off 
_pthe feorching beams of the Sumof either fide, as, with the help of 
the Arches undérneath, there will: be Jittle heat felt in the rooms 
|} below. ‘But then amain care muft be had to the fide walls, that the 
the Dorique pillars, of partition walls 5; and well crampt with Iron , 
' for elfetherafters being of that length , will thruft out the fide walls 
| by reafon the Arches will hinder the Couplets from coming fo low 
_las to keep the rafters fteady from: opening at the bottom. | For pre- 
within, fhould be fafficiently bakt: and fo much the more, for that the, 
|-but not much, for the double roofs being opento the Sun, in oblique | 
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