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As foon as the Kang is compleated, fire is 
kindled in the furnace, to dry it quick and even. Great 
diligence mud be ufed in examining it, in order to 
flop up all the little holes through which the fmoke 
might efcape. The wealthy, to moke their Kang 
neater, and to moderate its heat, oil the bricks of the 
floor, and light the fire, to make the oil penetrate 
deeper, and to dry them the fafler. This oil is again 
the Tong Teou^ and may be fupplied with walnut 
oil. 
3. The Ti Kang^ or paved Kang, is made like the 
Kao Kang juft defcribed ; the only difference la, 1°, 
The pipe for the heat goes on rifing from the mouth 
of the furnace to the further end of the room. 2°, 
It does not communicate with a fecond pipe, as in 
the model. 3°, The vent holes that convey the heat 
into the ftove are all made narrow next the furnace, 
and go widening towards the ftove. 4°, The fun- 
nels for the fmoke always terminate without doors, 
or end in the little chimneys. 5°, In the Emperor’s 
palace and thofe of princes, the ftove is covered with 
two rows of bricks, to confine the fmoke, and to 
moderate the heat. 
Note, That the bricks in the royal apartments 
are two feet fquare, and four inches thick. They 
coft near a hundred crowns apiece; and are fb 
beautiful, good and folid, that you can have no 
conception of any fuch thing beyond the feas. They 
are grey; but this is owing to the Chinefe 'manner 
of baking their bricks and tiles, which comes nearer 
to that of the antients than ours. Theie bricks when 
coloured and glazed appear as fine as marble. The 
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