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 I0'2f5 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. to the depth of two inches. The coolers are eleven in number, and fall from the boilers to the tuns, each the depth of itself. 2051. A veri/ complete Brewery, on a smaller Scale, has been invented, and is now manufactured, by Messrs. Cottam and Hallen ; of which fig. 1 832 is the ground plan, and fig. 1 833 the elevation, in these figures, a is the boiler, which holds one hundred gallons ; b, the gallery for examining the boiler, and working the pump ; c, the coolers, Seven inches and a half deep ; d, the mash-tub ; e, the cistern for receiving the wort from the mash-tub over it ; /, the pump for drawing up the wort to be boiled ; ff, the cock by which the boiled wort is let into the coolers ; h, a cock by which the hot water from the boiler is let down through the first cooler into the mash-tub upon the malt ; and i, a cock and tube, by which the wort when cooled is returned to the mash-tub (after the grains have been removed from it), in order to be worked. 2052. Remarks. The first brewery is one of the most complete things of the kind any where to be met with on a similar scale ; and the second, not less so, on a smaller scale. The coolers, in the plan of Messrs. Cottam and Ilallen, are of sheet iron, and they are taken down and put up in very little time. The mash-tub, fl, can also be re- moved, so as to be out of the way when the brewhouse is used as a wash-house ; and there is a cover to e for the same purpose. To save trouble, on first filling the boiler with water, it may be poured into e, and pumped up. 2053. Drying Closets, Mr. Mallet proposes to form in a different manner either from that described by us, § 306, or that adopted in the Derbyshire Infirmary, and in a number of private laundries, as noticed in § 1466. He proposes to dry household linen " by its revolution over copper drums, heated by filling them with steam, as in the calico manufactories. The diagram, fig. 1834, shows at a the edge of a web of linen passing over and under the rollers. The linen to 1)6 dried is laid on it at .''; it then