London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 89
and I donot think that the slight differences which distinguish it fromsome others are improvements. It does very well in a chimneywhere the draught is always good, but will not do where it wouldbe liable to slight occasional checks, as the smallest hesitation inthe current makes the whole of the… … grate; but which is not liable to the same disadvantage, andwhich may be used in a chimney of less depth. All forms of grates of this kind are, however, liable to an im-portant defect; viz., that, from the great surface of the heatedmetal, heat is carried off to pass up the chimney. I feel…
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