Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, ed · New York, Leavitt & Allen · leaf 361
esidence is upon a strong loamyor cjayey soil, based upon clay or slate, or, at least, rocky in its sub-stratum. Such a soil is ]-etentive of moistiuC, and even though itbe well drained, the common ice-house, just described, will not pre-serve ice half through the summer in a locality of that kind.… … Fig. 3. The common Ice-house below ground. HOW TO BUILD ICE-HOUSES. 273 in all sucli soils. How shall it be built ? is tlie question which hasbeen frequently put to us lately. To enable us to answer this question in the most satisfectorymanner, we addressed ourselves to Mr. N. J. Wyeth of…
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