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Rural essays (1853)

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, ed · New York, Leavitt & Allen · leaf 362

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ies are usually built above ground ; and Mr. Wyeth in his letter to us re-marks, we noiv neverbuild or use an ice-house under ground ;it never preserves icef;3 well as those builtabove ground, andcosts much more. I,however, send you di-lections for the con-struction of bothkinds, with… … * Few of our readers are aware of the magnitude -which the business ofsupplying foreign countries with ice has attained in New England. Millionsof dollars worth have been shipped from the port of Boston alone, within18 274 RURAL ARCHITECTURE. the 2)lan of having a double partition, with the hollow…

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