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front and back walls, a, a, are of brick, supported on piers~ 
or stone pillars; 4 6 are spaces inclosed within outer walls, 
and covered with boards to contain linings, which commu- 
nicate, without any object intervening, with the fermenting 
substances in the interiur of the pit. These spaces may 
be two feet wide: the interior pit should seldom be more 
than six feet in breadth. A principal quality of this struc- 
ture is its neatness and cleanliness. Caled. Fortic. Mem., 
vol. ii, p. 217. 
West Melon and Cucumber Pit is also, built of brick. 
It has in this figure a chamber a@ to contain the dung ; 
4, a square opening by which the dung is introduced ; & 
rafters of wood or cast-iron, sustaining the interior soil; dd, 
openings to permit the ascent of steam. The walle are 
nine inches thick, and the pit may be seven feet wide inside 
measure. Lond. Hort. Trans., vol. iv., p. 220. 
Atkinson’s Melon Pit, as given on next page, is a brick 
structure. The back wall @ and the end wall are four 
inches thick, built in the pigeon-hole fashion, that is, with 
square intersti¢es between the bricks. The front wall 4 is 
dotible; the interior portion is brick in bed, the exterior 
brick on edge, with piers under each rafter. The included 
space communicates with the inside of the bed c. The 
pit d is filled with fermenting litter or tanners’ bark ; 
ee are spaces for linings. This pit, acccording to the ex- 
