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same line with the outside of the studs. TIjq conjer 

 posts are six inches square. The height of liL-a studs, 

 between the sill and the plate, is six feet one iuch. 

 (They must bp made longer, to allow for the part used iu 

 the mortise.) The upright sashes are three feet ten 

 inches wide, and six feet one inch long, and glazed with 

 six by eight glass. The stiles, or side pieces of the 

 sashes, are two and one fourth inches wide, aun one and 

 three eighths inches thick, and the rails, or top Emd bot- 

 tom pieces, are two and three iburths wide : the- insjilie 

 pieceb, of which there are four, are one and three eighths 

 inches wide, and seven eighths of an inch thick : they 

 are rabbeted to take the glass ; they go from top to bot- 

 tom. There are no cross-pieces used for glazing, bui this 

 is begun at the bottom of the sasb, and the nezt glass 

 lapped on the first about one fourth of an inch, (not any 

 more, as it is more likely to break,) and so on, one above 

 the other; all the sashes are glazed in this manner'; 

 there are five rows of glass to a sash. The eaehes are 

 strengthened in the middle by a piece of iron, one inch 

 'wide and one fourth of an inch thick, which ie cut in 

 even with the surface of the sash, on the insida, and se- 

 cured with a screw in each stile and inside piece which 

 supports the glass. These sashes are hung on hinges at 

 the top, and open out, and are fastened on the inside 

 with pieces of iron one fourth of an inch thick and one 

 inch wide. This is about fourteen inches Ions, and it is 

 secured to the rail of the sash by a staple ; anci, t.o hold 

 the sash closed or open at any desired distance .&orn two 

 to ten inches, another staple is driven into the sill ; the 

 iron plate has holes drilled in it, at distances of two 



