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 25^ COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. cottage in their boat with them, find it a source of great comfort, as it could be put up by a man and a boy in two liours, and taken down again in even less time. 511. The Accommodation of such a dwelling is limited to two rooms, as in fig. 44 j (to 445 a scale of three inches and one eighth to twenty feet), each twelve feet by twelve feet, and eight feet high in the clear. One of the rooms may have an iron stove, c, at one corner ; the pipe from which may be carried up within a square iron or wooden tube, with a vacuity of two or three inches between, in order to prevent the risk of setting fire to the tarpaw- ling, which serves as the temporaiy roof. If necessary on account of cold, the stove might be placed in the partition between the two rooms, so as to heat both ; or a tube from it might be cai-ried round or along one side of either or both apartments. In general, however, horizontal pipes will be unnecessary, and one upright tube for carrying off the smoke will be found quite sufficient. The whole of the stove should be of wrought iron, for lightness. 512. Construction. The foundation of this structure consists of four sleepers, fig. 44f), d d d d, each thirteen feet long, and five inches deep by three inches wide. On these are placed grooved bottom plates, e e e e, forming tlic foundations of the flooring, of the outside walls, and of the partition. These plates are formed of pieces, five inches broad, and three inches deep, laid flatwise, grooved along the upper side, to receive the bottom rails of the paneled fi-ames which form the walls of the cottage. These plates are let into the sleepers in the manner shown by fig. 447 (to a scale of three eighths of an inch to an inch). In this figure, / is the sleeper ; 9, the bottom plate ; h, the corner post let into it, in which is fixed a screw-nut, for being taken hold of by a screw-bolt that passes through the bottom plate so that by means of a bed-wrench applied at i it can be screwed perfectly tight. The corner posts are eight feet six inches long, and three inches by