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Immediately con t i g u 0 u s t o y o 11 r cl ra 1 n i n g pi a t ■ 
form should be your drying platform, or Glacis, of 
a lesser slope, and that slope the contrary way, and 
it should be spacious and- extensive : contiguous 
as possible to this latter should be your Granary or 
Beaucan ; so situated as to cast little or no shade on 
your platform at any hour of the, day during the 
year, or at least in crop time. If this Building 
consists of two stories, which I would recommend, 
as it costs so little proportionate additional expence, 
(as one roof covers all) a part of the breadth, and 
the whole length, of the lower story, may be de¬ 
voted to Coffee-drawers, and yet leave sufficient 
room for other Coffee ; or, should it happen that 
the dwelling-house forms a side or part of a side of 
the area, and it is sufficiently elevated to admit 
thereof, one front of it may be advantageously de¬ 
voted to these drawers, as is the case on the Estate 
of the Author. But in fact the figure and distribu- 
tion of the Buildings must be regulated by circum¬ 
stances of locality, and the shape of the Ground ; as 
some situations require large excavations, performed 
with prodigious labour, and vast expe-nditurcof time, 
to procure a sufficiency of flat surface on which to 
erect Buildings. That of which the figure is here 
I *i 1 • • • 'f/ / • 
represented, with some deviations, is more fortu¬ 
nately situated in that point of view than many. 
These deviations have been made in order to shew 
the advantages the present owner would have de¬ 
rived from it, had lie been the beginner of the 
Buildings, at their first origin. 
Should 
