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birds, from the vaft rookeries and woods of Rawcliff-Hall 

 and other hallfcin the fame neighbourhood, without the owners 

 of them ever fufpe&ing that they harbour and fupport a 

 breed of dedru£tive vermin, which greatly injure and lefien 

 the agricultural produce of the county. The fame is alfo 

 the cafe in a variety of other didricts of the kingdom. 

 Therefore fome deps mould be taken, either by feverely 

 taxing them, or fome other means, in order that the mif- 

 chicvous confequences of fuch nurferies may be leflened, or 

 wholly prevented, by their affording the convenience of 

 breeding and rearing of fo many of thefe birds. 



ROOKPOUR, in Geography, a town of Bengal; fix 

 miles N. of Kifhenagur. N. lat. 24 28'. E. long. 

 86 D 46'. 



ROOM, in Building. See BuiI.DING. 



Room, Cook. See CoOK-Room. 



Room, Fruit, in Gardening, a place condru&ed for the 

 purpofe of itoring and laying up different articles of the 

 fruit kind. Rooms of this nature are contrived in many 

 different ways, but the bed are perhaps thofe made with 

 drawers and fhelves for containing and preferving this fort 

 of produce in all the different kinds and dates of it. An 

 ingenious plan and contrivance of this defcription has 

 lately been fuggelted and delineated in the fecond volume 

 of the Tranfaftions of the Horticultural Society, by Mr. 

 Maher, who has found it, in feveral years' experience, ex- 

 tremely ufeful in keeping fruit, efpecially of the apple and 

 pear kinds. 



It is reprefented as confiding of a long fquare form, the 

 infide of which is fitted up, from the top to near the bot- 

 tom, with drawers in diderent divifions, according to the 

 fize of the room. The number of each of the drawers is 

 marked upon it, and a fpace left oppofite to each fuch num- 

 ber, for inferting the name of the particular kind of fruit 

 it may contain. 



The lower rows of drawers have clofe bottoms, and are 

 termed fweating drawers, as the fruit is put into them im- 

 mediately after it is gathered, in order to undergo that ope- 

 ration. Then, in the courfe of ten or fifteen days, accord- 

 ingly as the apples and pears may be found to have come 

 forward, they are forted, and the other drawers prepared 

 for receiving them, by covering the bottoms of them with 

 very clean wheat draw, which has been thoroughly ven- 

 tilated and rendered quite dry in the open air. The bottoms 

 of the drawers for this purpofe are to be formed in open 

 trellis work. 



It is recommended, as faving much time and trouble in 

 running up and down dairs, to have thefe rooms built upon 

 the ground furface ; and that the door and window of each 

 fhould have Aides, in order to admit a free circulation of 

 air, when the weather is fine ; but in damp days, or when 

 it rains, the rooms Ihould conltantly be kept fhut up in a 

 clofe manner. 



It is alfo advifed, that a flate and pencil fhould hang in 

 the rooms, the former of which fhould be divided into feven 

 diderent columns, in which may be put down what fruit is 

 delivered out each day in the week, for the fatisfa&ion of 

 families and fervants. 



Where thefe kinds of rooms are condrudled with fhelves, 

 they fhould be formed of fuch forts of wood as commu- 

 nicate no bad fmells or tades, and have thin flips of boards 

 fadened on their fore parts to prevent the fruits from fall- 

 ing od from them. Some advife their being covered all 

 over with a very coarfe canvas, in order to prevent any 

 fort of injury in the above way. The fruit is then to be 

 laid fingly in rows all over the furfaces of the fhelves after 

 being well dried, but never heaped over each other. Some 

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cover it by means of the fame fort of canvas or by paper, 

 taking care to turn it, and remove all that is damaged, two 

 or three times during the winter leafon. 



When the fruit is firft laid upon the fhelves, the earlied 

 fhould be put upon the lowed fhelves, and fo on to the 

 higheil in their proper order. As this requires much time 

 in many indances, it fhould always be done at every leifure 

 period. 



Many, however, think it the bed way of keeping fruit, 

 to fird put it in glazed earthen pans, well packed and 

 clofed with covers, which are then to be placed on the 

 fhelves in thefe drying rooms. 



Thefe forts of rooms fhould condantly be placed in the 

 mod convenient fituations, and contiguous to the rooms de- 

 ligned for other forts of garden produce. 



Rooms, Flight of. See Fugue. 



Rooms in houfes might be warmed by the deam of boil- 

 ing water conveyed in pipes along their walls. See Phil. 

 Tranf. N c 476. p. 370. feq. 



This contrivance is a copper with a dill-head, and a lead 

 or copper pipe fixed to this head, which conveys the hot 

 deam of the boiling-water through the diderent rooms in- 

 tended to be warmed. 



Rooms, in Ship-Building, the diderent vacancies between 

 the timbers, and likewife thofe between the beams, as the 

 mad-rooms, capdan-rooms, hatch-rooms, &c. Alfo the 

 diderent apartments or places of referve, of which there 

 are a number in a fhip, as the bread-room, an apartment 

 in the hold abaft for containing the bread for the fhip's ufe. 

 The fpirit-room is adjoining the after-hold, to contain the 

 fpirituous liquors for the fhip's ufe. The captain's and 

 lieutenant's dore-rooms are two apartments built next each 

 other on the darboard fide of the after platform abaft, for 

 thofe officers to dow their wine, Sec. in. On the oppofite 

 fide to the above is"the fteward's room, whence mod of the 

 provifions are idued, and which is the place appointed for 

 the purfer's deward to tranfaft his bufinefs in. Sail-rooms 

 are built between decks, upon the orlop or lower deck, to 

 contain the fpare fails. Befides thefe, there are feveral 

 other dore-rooms, in which the carpenter's, boatfwain's, 

 and gunner's dores are kept. Filling-room is a place 

 parted od in the magazine ; it is lined with flieet-lead, and 

 therein the powder is darted, in order to fill the cartridges. 



Room and Space, the diilance from the moulding edge 

 of one timber to the moulding edge of the next timber, 

 which is always equal to the fiding of two timbers, and the 

 room or opening between. 



Rooms, in a military fenfe, are thofe parts of a building 

 or barrack, which, by fpecific inltruftions, the diderent 

 barrack-mailers mult provide, and furnifh for the accom- 

 modation of the king's troops in Great Britain or elfewhere. 

 The fchedule, as publifiied by authority, defcribes the num- 

 ber of rooms allowed in barracks for the commiffioned, 

 warrant, and non-commiffioned officers, and private men, to 

 be as follows : 



Cavalry Rooms. — Field-officers, each two rooms ; captains, 

 each one ditto ; fubalterns, dad, and quarter-maders, each 

 one ditto ; the ferjeants of each troop of dragoons, and the 

 corporals of each troop of horfe, one ditto ; eight rank 

 and file, one ditto ; officer's mefs, two ditto. 



Infantry Rooms. — Field-officers, each two ditto ; captains, 

 each one ditto ; two fubalterns, one ditto , dad, each one 

 ditto ; twelve non-commiffioned officers, and private men, 

 one ditto ; officer's mefs, two ditto ; ferjeant-major, and 

 quarter-mader ferjeant, one ditto. When there are a fuffi- 

 cient number of rooms in a barrack, one may be allowed 

 to each fubaltern of infantry. 



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