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 and Sentiments. 449 fireplace, but the pot or boiler is (imply placed upon the fire, without other fiapport. There were, however, other methods of placing the pot upon the fire 3 and in one of the curious wooden fculptures in the church of Kirby Thorpe, in Yorkfliire, reprefenting a cook cleaning his dillies. No. 283. The Fireplace and its ufes. No. 284. A Cook cleaning his Difyes. the boiler is placed over the fire in a fort of four-legged frame, as repre- fented in the annexed cut No. 284. Early in the feventeenth century the fireplace had taken nearly its prefent form, although the dogs or andirons had not yet been fuperfeded by the grate, which, however, had already come into ufe. This later form of the fireplace is fliown in our cut No. 285, taken from one of an interefting feries of prints, executed by the French artift, Abraham BofTe, in the year 1633. It reprefents a domeftic party frying fritters in Lent. One of the dogs is feen at the foot of the opening of the fireplace. c? M In