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and 2.), being thofe neareft the ffricken corner, were carried 
nnder the ground. The conductor of the chimney D, from 
its upper point to its final termination, con lifted of ten .bars, 
into the lixth of which the conductor coming from the chim- 
ney E was fattened by its fourth bar, reckoning from the top 
(atL, fig. 1 . and 2.). This junction was made by a hook at the 
lower end of that fourth bar of the conductor from the chim- 
ney E, which hook was received into a hole of the above- 
mentioned lixth bar, and fixed there by a nut underneath'. 
Here was, therefore, only one hook and nut, inftead of two 
as in the common joints. Alfo at the top of this fixth bar of 
the conductor from the chimney E, where it united with the 
fifth bar, only one hook and nut were employed to form the 
junction, the other hook appearing never to have been put into 
its correfponding hole. I11 this fame fixth bar, above the hole 
into which the conductor from the chimney E was inferred, we 
found four other fpare holes, which were left quite empty. 
Tracing the conductor downward from this point of union, 
we found it dcficend over the lead of the valley, to the l'urface 
of which it gradually approached, till at a hole made on pur- 
pofe (m, fig. 2.) it paffed through the lead, whence it was con- 
tinued down the angle formed by the interfedfion of the 
eaft flank with the front of the center range (T, fig. 1. 2. and 
5.). It no where touched the wall of the building, but was 
kept in its place by ring-ftaples (/>,/>, fig. 3.). Being arrived 
within two or three inches of the ground, it entered into a 
channel of brick, enclofed on all fides (at e , fig. 5.), in which 
it was continued down to the arch of the great drain of the 
fore-court („v, fig. 5.) ; here, having paffed through a hole in 
the haunch of the arch (y, fig. 5. and 7.), it was bent 
off from the houfe through the middle of the drain, and 
B b b 2 ultimately 
