The American cottage builder: a series of designs, plans, and specifications, from $200 to $20,000. For homes for the people. Together with warming, ventilation, drainage, painting, and landscape gardening (1854)
Bullock, John · New York, Stringer & Townsend · leaf 198
rs which causes these fevers, isformed during the day, under the influence of the hot sun,still more abundantly than during the colder night ; butin the day, the direct beams of the sun warm the surface ofthe earth so intensely, that any air touching that surface issimilarly heated, and rises away… … THE AMERICAN COTTAGE BUILDER. 181 soon radiates away its heat, so that a thermometer lying onJhe ground is found to be several degrees colder than onohanging in the air a few feet above. The poison formednear the ground, therefore, at night, instead of beingheated and lifted, and quickly…
Architecture, Domestic
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