smoke which passes into the chimney is of course pro-portionally small. These facts at once suggest how small the consumptionof fuel must be, as that depends on the quantity of air entering, bow per-fect the combustion of the fuel must be where so little is expended, and howcompletely the beat… … f as I lies 130 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. saving of heat is proved by the rapidly diminishing temperature of the flue,detected by a hand passing along it from the stove. Dining the winter1836-7, which was very long and severe, my library was warmed by thethermometer-stove alone.…
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