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 624 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [April, the house will beTwenty inches thick, np to the floor ; and they will be eighteen inches thick in the back building, and throughout the party-wall, up to the same level. The first story of the main build- ing will also be eighteen inches thick ; and all the others, throughout the whole building, will be sixteen inches thick, as will be, likewise, the foundations for the porches and steps. The exterior fcice will all be laid broken-range work ; pointed off to an even surface. The cor- nices, window-sills, and heads and door- sills, will all be dressed in the ordinary way ; and all properly set. All to be pointed with mortar, so as to produce a suitable contrast with the color of the stone. All flues will be constructed with brick, topped out, above the roof, with stone. The flues to be well pargetted with mor- tar. Furring-strips will be built in the exterior walls every three feet, one inch thick, and four inches wide, to hold the furring-laths. The joists will be 3 hy 10 inches square section, 16 inches between cen- tres ; all straightened and blocked on the walls, with one course of lattice- bridging through the centre of each tier, and properly framed, for trimmers to flues, stairs, &c. The roof will be con- structed with double timbers, each set. 3 >y 5 inches, substantially secured, and boarded over closely, for slate on the sides, and tin on the flat. The floors will all be of good qualitj r , one-inch heart-pine boards, mill-worked, and seasoned ; none over 5 inches wide, and smoothed off after being laid. The window-frames will all be made for sashes inches thick and double