Cottages and cottage life : containing plans for country houses, adapted to the means and wants of the people of the United States ; with directions for building and improving for the laying out and embellishing of grounds ; with some sketches of life in the country (1848)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Cincinnati : H.W. Derby & Co., Publishers ; New York : A.S. Barnes & Co. · leaf 82
perfect. In the roof you will, also, leavea door, through which you fill the house; and also a tube,so that over-charged air can escape. If, when the ice isput in, each layer, after being broken, is sprinkled withsalt-water, it is said to preserve it greatly. I have nevertried it. Remember that the… … ^5?^^g^ i D ^ * 1 (• * i . I J^ ^T^N COTTAGE LIFE. 55 known among the Greeks; and is one of the fine improve-ments which show an advance which, if slow, is still aprogress — Towards a colder latitude, said Uncle John. Mr. Ellery seemed suspended between the curious demo-cracy of Greece, which lay…
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