.594 ON CONVENIENCES PECULIAR TO BOOK I. 



The family offices, and those of the farm, as well as the 

 farm itself, have been already mentioned. See Architec- 

 ture and Agriculture. 



The wash-house and drying-rooms are frequently sepa- 

 rated from the other offices for conveniency of water. Among 

 the most complete hitherto erected, is that at Dalkeith : the 

 drying-room is heated by metallic flues, which succeed much 

 better than the iron cylinders used at Dunse Castle and seve- 

 ral other places *. 



The dairy is always a pleasing object, and should therefore 

 be designed in a form, and placed in a situation which will 

 have some effect, and at the same time where it will not be in- 

 jured by the extremes of temperature. Dr. Anderson s plan of 

 having double walls and roofs will answer this purpose in the 

 completest manner. Hollow walls, or walls having a vacuity 

 between the lath and plaster eight or ten inches wide, will an- 

 swer the same purposes sufficiently well for ordinary cases. If 

 a spring, fountain, or jet d'eau, can be contrived to burst forth 



* A washing-machine on anew plan is at present constructing by a friend of mine 

 for the Society of Arts, which it is hoped will prove much superior to any yet de- 

 vised, arid which will certainly alleviate the most laborious parts of female domestic 

 labour. 



