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Description of a Stove . 
vantageously supply tlie place of tlie brick-work, with 
which it must otherwise be tilled up. 
All these figures being drawn on the same scale, there 
will be no difficulty in preserving the proportions of the 
parts. 
The construction of this stove is neither difficult nor 
expensive. For the outside nothing is wanted but Dutch 
tiles, such as are used for common stoves, that is to say 
thin in the middle, and having a border all round, which 
serves to give them more stability. They are fixed in 
like manner by a band of metal. The hind part may con- 
sist entirely of bricks. The vase placed on the slab of 
marble or stone, which covers the stove, is a mere orna- 
ment. 
If it be thought proper to have no heat-openings, all 
the interior structure may be made of bricks, of proper 
sizes, laid, with loamy earth moistened, arid set on edge 
for the circulatory pipes, without any iron except a cast 
plate over the fire-place, and a door and frame in the 
usual manner. 
The expense of the heat openings however consists on- 
ly in four cast iron plates with tongues and grooves to 
form the compartments represented at fig. 7* All the rest 
is done with plate iron, bent round and rivetted, which, 
when once enclosed in the masonry, will not admit the 
escape of the air. 
Cast iron plates with grooves are well known, since 
Franklin’s stoves have been adopted. If it were found 
difficult to procure them, their place might be supplied in 
two ways. First by portions of pipes of cast iron, which 
might be placed vertically side by side, serving as the 
inside walls of the fire-place, and communicating with 
each other by little channels at top and bottom formed in 
the masonry. Secondly, ■ by common plain east plates. 
