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 122 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. roof, the gutter between the roofs.) The chimney shafts to have one inch gutter boards and bearers, with feather-edged flanch boards nine inches wide ; the eaves to have one inch and a quarter thick feather-edged eave boards, with wrought and roiuided edge, and a wrought fillet between the pole-plate and eave boards, nailed to tlie feet of the rafters : three-inch thick cut brackets to be put under the projection of the roof over the gables (as shown by fig. 6, in the plate of details, page 118). The rafters of the roof to be covered with three quarters of an inch thick deal slips two inches and a half wide, for countess slating, with such tilting fillets (see fig. 55), &c., as may be required. The penthouse in front to have wrought and curved chamfered (the angles planed off, as in tig. 228, in which h is the chamfer) brackets six inches by ten inches, to 228 support the plate, as shown by the drawings, firmly fixed at the lower end into the wall. Partitions for brick nogging flat (see fig. 58) to have heads and sills four inches by two inches ; puncheons (quarters) and braces, four inches by two inches and a quarter, and eighteen inches apart ; door-posts and principal quarters, four inches by three inches ; nogging pieces, four inches by two inches. Partitions for lath to have heads and sills, four inches and a quarter by three inches ; common quarters, three inches by two inches and a quarter, and twelve inches apart ; braces, three inches by two inches and a quarter ; door-posts and principal quarters, four inches by three inches. The whole of the external walls of the principal and chamber floors, except those of the wash-house, to be battened inside with one-inch thick yellow deal battens, two inches and a quarter wide, and twelve inches apart. The well to have a proper barrel curb, four feet high, boarded with one-inch thick boards, and oak stages to be placed in the well for fixing the suction pipe of the pump. (A barrel curb is formed of circular ribs, generally of elm, on the outside of which slips of deal, four feet long, are nailed so as to form a cylinder, fig. 229, on which the brick steening is placed ; the rest of the steening is built above it, as at i, in fig. 230 ; and, as the well is sunk, the curb 229 and superincumbent steening descend. When the well is in progress, the body of the earth, k, is dug out to the depth of two or three feet at a time, according as the soil may be more or less tenacious, and drawn to the surface in buckets ; a band or rim, I I, being left under the curb ; this band is afterwards dug out, when the curb descends, and several courses of steening are added above. The use of the curb is to keep the well perpendicular, and truly cylindrical during the work; it is left in the well, the interstices between the slips being filled in with brickwork. Oak stages are pieces of timber, with their ends fixed in the steening, which cross the centre of the well, at the distance of eight or ten feet from the bottom, and from each other ; to these the pipe of the pump is fixed, in order that they may support its weight, and keep it steady.) The carpenter to make, fix, and refix, when required, such centring (frames of timber by which the brick or stone work