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 154 COTTAGE., FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. so placed, they will be found convenient for wanning the feet, and for keeping vessels of water or of food hot. Those who are acquainted with the mode of heating hot-houses by hot water will allow that there is not the slightest degree of difficulty either in erect- inu- such an apparatus, in the first instance ; or, when erected, in managing it, and keeping it in repair ; and further, that, by it, it would be easy, in the most severe weather of even a Russian winter, to maintain a temperature of 60" and upwards in all the rooms on both floors of this group of cottages. 307. Windows. We do not like latticed windows, because they are generally cold and gloomy ; but as they are much cheaper than sashes hung with cords and pulleys, where economy is a main object, recourse must either be had to them, or to iron vnndows. Windows of cast iron, very fit for cottages, are now made, of different forms, and very cheap. Fig. 283, which is one foot two inches and a lialf wide, and two feet four inches high, and weighs 8 lbs., costs in London, in 1832, by retail, only 35. 6d. Fig. 284, in the Gothic form, which is one foot four inches wide, and three feet 7 inches high, weighs 23 lbs., and costs 6s. Fig. 28.'), two feet six inches square, weighs 19 lbs., 284 283 ^ ll — J "■i-Jtir.— 285 .2' .6-:.. ._ J and costs 6s. 6d. Fig. 286 is one foot seven inches wide, and three feet high, yeighs 1 li lbs., and costs 55. 6d. Fig. 287 is one foot seven inches wide, three feet four inches high, weighs 20 lbs., and costs 6s. 6d. These windows have each, either ears m the centre, as at a a, figs. 285, 286. 287, by which they may be suspended, so as to open out- wards at bottom, and inwards at top, or the contrary ; or they have side-ears, to which hinges may be riveted, as at b b, in figs. 283 and 284. Fig. 288 is a superior description of 287 286 h I II IP & / ^?t« 288 i^ t .f *•