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 860 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. and air to the basement story. This area is represented by the dotted line/. The walls of the projections at the angles of the terrace are of masonry, fourteen inches thick ; and each of these projections forms a portion of a square, the external dimensions of which are nine feet on the side ; h h are pedestals for vases and statues. The vestibule, fifteen feet nine inches by four feet, is shown at i ; in its external wall are three arched openings, reaching down to the level of the terrace, the centre opening serves as an entrance, but the side ones have each a panel of enriched open cast-ironwork, two feet nine inches high, as a protection from the area ; k, the hall and staircase. The hall is fourteen feet by fifteen feet nine inches, and the floor of the hall is six inches higher than that of the vestibule or porchway ; the geometrical staircase is to be of stone, three feet nine inches wide, with metal hand-rail and balusters. A small lobby, ten feet by six feet, is shown at / ; it is lighted by a window from the vestibule. The morning or lady's work room, m, is seventeen feet by ten feet, and eleven feet high ; the window is to the west, because this apartment will be occupied only in the early part of the day, and, consequently, the after- noon and evening sun shining on it will not occasion any inconvenience. The fireplace is on one side of the room, and " the flue is carried up in the wall over the drawingroom door into the wall against the staircase, and so up to the shaft." The drawingroom, n, is twenty-four feet by sixteen feet, and eleven feet high ; the windows, three in number, are to the south. The library, o, communicates with the drawing room, and is twenty- three feet by ten feet, with two windows to the east. The dining-room, p, is twenty-one feet by sixteen feet, and eleven feet high, with the window to the east. In the ceiling of this room there are to be ornamental pateras for ventilation, as there is to be an air flue provided for caiying off the heated air ; the store-room, q, is seventeen feet by six feet, with an air flue and pateras in the ceiling ; r is a passage ; s, the kitchen, twenty-four feet by fifteen feet nine inches, with an 1511 air flue to carry off the | 2 | steam ; t, the scullery, fourteen feet six inches by ten feet, containing an oven, and copper, also ventilated by an air shaft ; II, the larder, ten feet by eight feet ; and v, the back staircase, constructed oj stone, with metal balus- ters and handrail. The stairs break into the kit- chen, but at such a height as not in any way to be in- convenient. For the pur- pose of getting additional -cr th h ^-Q T-