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labourers’ dwellings. 
have noticed in Vol. 1, p. 355. The external walls may be eleven 
inches thick, which will be quite sufficient; and the runners in that case 
must be placed so as to leave a vacuity of two inches in the centre of 
the wall. As a brick is only nine inches long and four and a half 
broad, the transverse bricks, or headers, must be flush on the outside, 
which will leave an uneven surface on the inside ; but this is all the 
better as supplying a means for the plaster to take a good hold. The 
foundations must be solid, and a brick and a half in thickness; and 
the earth must be well rammed round them. 
The bearing timbers may be of elm or of larcb, and the rafters of 
the principal roof should be four and a half by three-quarter inches. 
The roof is to be covered with terrometalic Italian tiles ; these are of 
an iron colour, which is much preferable to those of a glaring red 
colour. The chimney stack is to have lateral openings, as shewn in 
the view, and be covered with iron coloured tiles; the shafts to be 
coated with cement. The windows are to have perpendicular wooden 
mullions or astragals, and to turn round on a pivot and socket in the 
centre at top and bottom, see Vol. I. p. 153. The porches and win¬ 
dow dressings may, for the sake of cheapness, be of wooden work, 
painted of a stone colour. All the internal finishing should be ex¬ 
ecuted in the strongest and plainest manner; and all the external 
wood work ought to be painted four times in oil. The internal di¬ 
visions may be of brick on edge, or of brick nogging flat; but if the 
building is situated where wood is abundant they may be of lath 
and quartering, as the roof is wholly supported by the external 
walls. 
The expense of this building, including the offices, if the walls are 
of brick work—the roof covered with terrometalic tiles, and the joiners 
work finished in a strong but plain manner, will be about £408, or 
£102 each house. If the external walls are built of stone work, that 
is, quartering framed as if for internal divisions—wattled with small 
branches of trees between the quartering, and the spaces filled in with 
mud, the expense will be greatly lessened, especially where wood 
can be had cheap; but, perhaps, brick (or stone if cheap ) walls will 
be found more economical in the long run. 
The situation most proper for such a building must depend upon 
many circumstances, but it will be of no use to erect it where the soil 
is not particularly good for the gardeners, so as to repay the labour 
bestowed on them ; and if there is an opportunity of choosing a situ¬ 
ation as to effect, I should say, that from its characteristic as an 
Italian structure, it might be advantageously placed in rather a low 
than an elevated situation. But wherever the situation may be, the 
