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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 147 at least, one foot above the surrounding surface, in order that /lo water may ever draiti into, or rest upon it. Each cottage should have a yard behind it, surrounded by a wall of earth, with a projecting coping of slate, tile, or boards, and the entrance to this yard may either be at one side, or behind, according to the arrangement of the walks of the garden. It is almost needless to observe that there ought to be a dung-pit and liquid manure tank in each yard, communicating witii the privy by a pipe-drain; and, where superior cleanliness is an object, this drain should communicate with the cow-house and pigsty in the same manner. 289. Ornament. These dwellings maybe ornamented with handsome chimney pots; by covering the roof with a trellis for vines ; by adding another pillar to each porch ; and by a handsome architectural parapet. Supposing the slope of the parapet not to be less than forty-five degrees, and covered with turf, and the upper part gravelled, with a margin of turf of about a foot in width, the effect from the sin-rounding garden would be exceedingly good, without any other addition than the chimney-pot3. Design XLI. — Sic Cottages grouped together, inth a view to Economy in building them. 290. General Arrangement. The object of this Design is, to show the manner in which dwellings may be erected with the greatest degree of economy. We have before observed (§ 23), that, where this is the case, the external form will always approach more or less to that of a cube, and the internal apartments will also approximate to this figure. In the Design si^bmitted, figs. 267 and 268, six dwellings are ranged round an 267 open yard, a, which contains a privy, b, and well, c, common to the whole ; beside tlus is a wash-house and bake-house, d, also common to the whole. The building is two stories high, each story being eight feet high in the clear. 29L The iiluation of this group may be supposed to be ncai" a public road, e,