dearth; and the consequence of this folly is, that theinteriors are always damp and uncomfortable. A wayto cure this state of things is to construct a dry areawall on the outside, leaving a space between that andthe basement-walls—and even a few inches will afford Dry Areas, &c. 103 sensible… … not altogether to be recommended, as ordinary brick stretchers still act as partial conductors of the wet. Fig. 100 represents an arrangement to be recommended; and here again are used the vitrified stoneware tiles drawn as flat damp courses, as at fig. 99, only that they are now placed…
