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 59 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. a a are two kilns, twenty feet in diameter internally ; and h h two other kilns, sixteen feet in diameter internally ; c is an open space between the kilns, to wliieh air is freely adniitted by the openings to the south-east, south-west, and to the north-esist, sX d d d; e 1148 y y b-.:
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shows the openings to the dunge, and cockles or furnaces for the admission of air to the fire, and to be rarefied by the flues, previously to its ascending and passing through the drying-floor ; /, the furnaces made of cast iron, with doors to the fuel-chambers and ash- j)its of the same material ; g, termination of a portion to the extent of one yard of the flues next the furnaces, which ought to be built of fire-brick, or which may be formed entirely of cast iron, as in this Design. The remaining part of the flues to be built of common brick on edge three courses deep, and covered with bricks or tiles, twelve inches long by six inches broad ; /(, the situation of the chimney shafts ; i, the staircase for carrying up the hops to the drying-floor ; and It, a cart-shed, over which is a floor on which the hops are cooled. Fig. 1149 is a transverse section on the line A B, or nearly so, in which I is the fuel-chamber, with the doors open; m, the thoroughfare between the two kilns ; n, the flues ; o, the chimney shafts ; p, tl)e drying-floor ; q, the situation of the wall-plate; ;•, the doors to the drying- floor open ; s, tlic floor of the loft, with the movable