fecuring Buildings againjl Fire. 893 
The height of the flame was no lefs than eighty-feven, 
feet perpendicular from the ground, and the grafs upon 
a bank, at a hundred and fifty feet from the fire, was all 
fcorched; yet the fecured wooden building, quite conti- 
guous to this vaft heap of fire, was not at all damaged, 
except fome parts of the outer coat of plafter-work. 
This experiment was intended to reprefent a wooden 
town on fire, and to fhew how effectually even a wooden 
building, if fecured according to my new method, would 
flop the progrefs of the flames on that fide, without any 
afliflance from fire-engines, &cc. 
§ 20. The laft experiment I made that day, was the at- 
tempting to burn a wooden flair-cafe, fecured according 
to my Ample method of under-flooring. The under Ade 
of the flair-cafe was extra-lathed. Several very large 
kiln faggots were laid, and kindled, under the flair-cafe, 
round the flairs and upon the fleps ; this wooden flair- 
cafe notwithflanding reAfled, as if it had been of flre- 
llone, all the attempts that were made to confume it. 
I have Ance made flve other flill flronger Ares upon 
this fame flair-cafe, without having repaired it, having, 
moreover, filled the fmall place in which this flair-cafe 
is entirely with fhavings and large faggots; but the 
flair-cafe is, however, flill Handing, and is but little 
damaged. 
