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 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA AUCHITECTURE. a store-room for food and for various articles required for hounds, pointers, &c. ; 6 is a room for pointers ; c, breeding-rooms ; d, couches in these rooms for the dogs to sleep on ; e, room for hounds ; /, boiling-house, the flue from the boiler serving to heat the show- room in ordinary weather, there being a separate stove for use in severe weather ; g, place for carrion ; h, place for fuel ; i i, hospitals ; k k, small yards sloping one inch in two feet ; 1 1, large yards with the same slope ; m, reservoir of water supplied by a spring ; n, channels for irrigating the yards and washing the rooms. These channels are only one inch deeper in the centre than the general surface of the yard, and their sides are sloping, so that, when the water is turned on by raising the sluices of the reservoir, it spreads over the whole surface of the yards, and, with very little assistance from a broom, soon renders tliem perfectly clean ; o o, drains which lead to a cesspool for the deposition of the solid part of the manure carried off by the water ; the liquid part overflowing in gutters, so formed as to irrigate a sloping water-meadow. We have given two elevations of this Design, both different from that which was actually executed ; and both having walls surrounding the yards, instead of open iron railings,