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and ofiangular above afcending like a Torver^ the Jires being made 
againft the Fdf//i, and theyz?zo^^ climbing up them, without any 
towe/f or difturbance to the Ccofe- ; which being flopped by a 
large conical roof at the top, goes out at loop-holes on every fide 
according as the wind fits ; the loop-holes at the fide next the wind 
being (liut with falling doors, and the adverfe fide opened. 
131. Thefpacious Stair -cafe 2.1 5/ec/6iw^/o«-houfe is alfo re- 
markable,not only for that it ftandson an Area of 30 foot fquare, 
but for its rarity too, it being not perhaps at all, at leaft not eafic 
to be met with amongftthe writers of Anhite^ure: wherefore, 
though I cannot approve of its contrivance in all particulars, yet 
for the fake of its magnificence^ and variety from moft, if not all 
others^ I cannot in juftice but afford it a lliort defcription. 
132. It being placed therefore backward, oppofite to the moft 
honorable entrance of the Houfe, between two wings that extend 
themfelves beyond it, and the grofs of the Pile^ you enter upon 
it having paft by the halU and other offices ufually placed by it, at 
x\\Q door -way Tab, 13. F/^. 4. and land upon the half pace i , 
which together with the reji marked 234, isrc, are 6 foot I fquare: 
The figures in their natural order fliew how you afcend from one 
half pace to another, by afcents of 7 fleps, each about 5 inches \ 
deep, and near i o inches \ broad : The half paces marked with 
the fame figure lye on the fame level^ and therefore as 4 is the 
higheft half pace in this firft Scheme of it, fo it is the lowefl in the 
{tQOXiA^Tab, I'^.Fig. 5. 
133. In which alfo the order of the figures (hews the manner 
of afcentjnik as in the former, only it muft be obferved, that as 
the afcent to the half pace 4 in the firft Scheme, was fuppoie from 
Eafi and Wefi^ fo the afcent higher from it in the fecond, is to North 
and South : Of which two Schemes placed alternatly over one an- 
other, the whole fiair -cafe is framed from bottom to top, which 
iseafily apprehended, if you but imagine the half pace 4 in the 
fecond Scheme^ to be placed over 4 in the firft, and fuch another 
frame as is delineated in the firft Scheme to be placed on the fe- 
cond : The Letters V V (hew the vacancies that open a ProfpeSi 
from die top to the bottom of the whole fiair-cafe, and abed 
fhew the places of the doors into the rooins at each corner of 
it. 
LI 2 134. In 
