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 1010 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. hooks for fastening the cord to when the blind is piilled up ; the other hook lieing :i little way above it, as shown at h, in fig. 180G. It will be observed that the hood or l)onnet is confined by the line and rod shown at c, in the same figure ; the line serving to draw up the curtain. Fig. 1808 is a skeleton view of the interior of the blind; in 1808 wz w V > Nil which a is one of the lines by which the hood is raised : it is attached to the front iron of the hood, passes over the pulley h, proceeds along the top of the lath, passes over the pulley c, and joins the other lines at the knot d% e is the second line of the hood, which crosses the pidley /, passes along the lath, and descends over the pidley g, to the knot /;. h is the third line of the hood, which passes over the pulley i, and meets the others at d ; A is the knot where the two lines unite, which raise the entire blind : one line passes over the pulley /, and is attached by a hook to the slip m, which slides in a groove, and to which the rising bar of the hood, n, is hinged. The other line crosses the pulley o, proceeds along the lath, descends over the pulley p, and is attached to the other sliding slip at q. r is the thick cord, by pulling which the hood is raised ; s represents the front iron ; t is the line which the bar reaches when the hood is drawn up ; and u is the thick cord, which must be grasped together with r to raise the whole blind. An elegant improve- ment on this description of blinds has been made by Mr. Vokins, in consequence of which they are much more easily drawn up, and are less likely to get out of repair.