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withinjfliould be fiifficiently bakt : and fo much the more, for that the 

 wind is kept out, that Qiould come to cool it, by fhutting up all pal^l 

 fages 5 that may let it in, which they alwayes doe, for fear the raine 

 come with its and letting in the Sun at the Weft end, where and when ! 

 it fhines hotteft. Therefore this kind of building is moft pernicious to i 

 thofe that love their health , which is the comfort of their lives : but \ 

 yon will fay, that a double houfe will leffen much of this heat, by rea- j 

 fon that the Weft fide is not vifited by thelun in the morning,nor the i 

 Eaft in the afternoon 5 I do confefs that to be fbme little remedy , 

 but not much, for the double roofs being open to the Sun, in oblique 

 lines, a great part of the forenoon, and being reflefted from one fide | 

 to another, when it comes to the Meridian (and before and after, at j 

 leaft two hours,J with the (corching heat it gives to the gutter , 

 which is between them , and is in the middle of the houfe from end to 

 end, will fb warm the Eaft-fide of theHoufe,as all the fhade it has in 

 the afternoon will not cool it, nor make it habitable, and then you 

 may guefs in what a temper the Weft fide is. 



Whereas, if you build your houfe upon an Eaft and Weft line, you 

 have thefe advantages, that in the morning the Sun never fhines in or 

 neer an oblique line, (which is upon the Eaft end of your houfe , J 

 above two hours, and that is from fix to eight a clock, and as much in 

 the afternoon, and not all that time neither 3 and upon the roof it 

 can never (hine in an oblique line, but glancing on both fides, eaft off 

 the heat very much 5 I do confefs that I love a double houfe, much 

 better then a finglc i but if it have a double Cover, that is, two gable 

 ends, and a gutter between, though it be built up an Eaft and Weft 

 line ; yet the Sun (which muft lye upon it all the heat of the day) will 

 fb multiply the heat , by reflefting the beams from infide to infide, 

 and fb violently upon the gutter, from both, which you know muft be 

 in the middle of the houfe , from end to end, as you fhall feel that 

 heat above, too lenfibly in the ground ftories beIow,though your fie- 

 ling be a foot thick , and your ftories fixteen foot high. Therefore 

 if I build a double houfe, I muft order it fo, as to have the divifion 

 between either room of a ftrong wall , or of Dorique Fillers Archt j 

 from one to another , and in each intercoluraniation a fquare ftud 

 of ftone for the better ftiengthning and fupporting of the Arches 

 above 5 for I would have the rooms Archt over with ftone , and the 

 innermoft poynts of the Arches, to reft upon the Pillars, and the 

 whole houfe to becoverd with Couples and Rafters , and upon that 

 fhinglesjthe Ridge Pole of the houfe running along over the Pillars, 

 fb that the covering is to ferve both Arches, that covers your rooms: 

 by which means there is but one Gable end , which .will glaunce off 

 the fcorching beams of the Sun of either fide, as, with the help of 

 the Arches underneath, there will be little heat felt in the rooms 

 below. But then a main care muft be had to the fide walls , that the 

 girders be ftrong, and very well Dove-tayld, one into another , upon 

 the Dorique pillars, or partition walls , and well crampt with Iron , 

 ■ or elfe the rafters being of that length , will thruft out the fidev/allsj 

 by reafon the Arches will hinder the Couplets from coming fo low j 

 as to keep the rafters fteady from opening at the bottomc For pre= 



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