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2. UPPER ENGINE-ROOM. 



This is 10 feet 6 inches in length and the full width of the house. It 

 has one door and one window on each side, a skylight 5 by 5 feet 

 overhead, and a stairway leading to the engine-room below. The in- 

 side wooden doors of this room, as well as those of the kitchen and 

 drum-room next forward, are fitted in halves, upper and lower, so that 

 in bad weather the lower halves may be closed to keep out the water, 

 while the upper are open for ventilation. 



3. KITCHEN. 



In length 8 feet, the whole width of the house, with one door and one 

 window on each side, and a skylight 4 by 5 feet overhead. It is 

 furnished with a table, fuel-boxes, lockers, dish-racks, and a lead-lined 

 sink fitted with a pump, drawing water from the tanks in the hold. 



4. DRUM-ROOM. 



This is also the entrance to the fire-room, is 13 feet 6 inches in length, 

 and the width of the house. It is fitted with doors and windows like 

 those of the engine-room, has a skylight 4£ by 5 feet overhead, and 

 communicates by a stair-way with the fire-room below. As its name 

 implies, this room contains the steam-drum, which is so designed that 

 the funnel passes up through it, thus utilizing the heat of the escap- 

 ing products of combustion to superheat the steam. 



5. STATE-ROOMS. 



Forward of the drum-room the wooden part of the deck-house com- 

 mences with four state-rooms, two on each side, for the members of the 

 scientific corps. Each room is 6 feet 6 inches in length, half the width 

 of the house, and has a door and window with blind shutters, a berth 

 30 inches in width, a writing-desk, washstand, drawers, lockers, &c. 

 Additional ventilation is secured by lattice- work openings, outboard, 

 and also between the rooms. 



6. UPPER LABORATORY (PLATE IV). 



This is 14 feet in length and the whole width of the house. It is 

 supplied with light and air by two windows and a door on each side 

 and a skylight 6 by 3 feet overhead. In the center is a very conven- 

 iently arranged work-table, square in shape, around which four per- 

 sons can seat themselves, each having at his right hand a tier of 

 drawers which form the legs of the table. There are also two hinged 

 side-tables, a sink with alcohol and water tanks attached, wall cases 

 for books and apparatus, and in one corner a medical dispensary. 



7. CHART-ROOM (PLATE V). 



Immediately forward of the laboratory is the chart-room, 8 feet 6 

 inches in length, the full width of the house. It has one door and 



