The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York, G.E. & F.W. Woodward · leaf 34
. The main point to be attend-ed to in order to cause a chim-ney to draw well, is to con-tract the openings both at thethroat and at the top, so a-to break the force of any down-ward currents of air whichmay be thrown into it. Fig.2 will serve to illustrate th(faulty construction of the throat,and… … CorrectCosraucTiuN. 34 The House. diminution of about two inches in the diameter will be sufficient. 3. Waimlng,—The original plan for warming houses was tobuild a fire in the center of the principal room, the smokebeing allowed to find its way out either at a hole in the roof orthrough any…
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