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 FUKXITURE OF COUNTRY INNS. 705 1343 very suitable for inns. Fig. 1343 represents the frame of a chair of cast and wrought iron : the seat is not shown, but it is intended to be of wood ; oak or chestnut, or an imi- tation of either. The whole frame of the chair is so contrived that it can be cast in one piece, with all the wrought-iron posts cast in, so as to need no subsequent fitting. The small diagonal stays are of wire, three sixteenths of an inch in diameter. The legs arc of rolled gas tubing, " swagged taper," and the collars are dipped OQ Lot, by the oper- ation which is technically called " sinking on." This chair, which is, with the other cast-iron articles mentioned above, the invention of Mr. Mallet, weighs, when finished, no more than sixteen pounds, which does not much exceed the weight of a common parlour chair, with hair cushions. Fig. 1 344 is a Gothic chair wholly of cast iron. It is cast in three pieces, which are afterwards riveted together. If roughly used, it might be liable to fracture, but it would form an excellent chair for the entrance hall of an inn, or even of a villa. Fig. 1345 is another hall chair, with an iron framework, in two pieces, and a wooden seat. This chair would do well for a luggage chair in inn bed-rooms ; it being found convenient to have one strong chair with a boarded Lottom in each bed-room, on which to set the trunks, &c., belonging to the guests, to prevent the lighter chairs from being injured by the weight. Fig. 1346 is a bench or settle for the veranda of a common public-house ; and fig. 1347, one of a more enriched character, suitable for the hall of a country inn in the old English style. Both are taken from 4 L