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 584 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. tains the machinery may be made of any required dimensions, the sails and turning cap being all at the top of the house. Smock mills are built of timber, covered with boards ; and tower mills are built wholly of brick or masonry. Fig. 1113 is a perspective view of 1113 a smock mill, as it appears with the sails spread to the wind. Fig. 1114 is a plan of the ground floor, showing the basement wall, which is of masonry, 20 inclies thick, the cross wall for supporting the joists, and the story post, on the top of which rests the gudgeon pivot of the main axis or vertical shaft. This wall is of masonry, 14 inches thick ; the joists are of oak 4 inches by 3 inches, and there is an oak sleeper on the cross wall 1 inci; and a half thick and 4 inches wide. This floor is used for bolting and dressing the meal, and for filling the sacks with flour, &c. Fig. 1115 is a plan of the floor on which the mill- rtones are placed, in which is shown the situations of the vertical shaft, a, the places of 1114 1115