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to have a declivity, of not less than three inches in everytwelve feet in length, with air-traps at all the openings intothem, and a sesspool at the junction of the small drains intothe main drain, which conveys off the whole. The bottomof this sesspool should be grated with iron, to prevent ver-min getting through the drain. The whole of the officesshould be finished in the most plain and simple manner, withsquare-framed doors and shutters, beaded facings and sett-ings. The stables, and inferior, offices, ought to have twocoats of plaster. The kitchen, hall, laundry, bed rooms in theoffices,' three coats. The sashes of their windows should behung, and glazed with second crown glass, and the bedrooms in them should have plain cornices. All the walls,both of the house and of the living apartments in the offices,should be stnndarded and lathed.

The principal rooms of the house should be finished withmouldings round the doors and windows, and base and surbasemouldings round the rooms. The doors and shutters mouldedframed, with framed ingoings, breasts, and soffits. The win-dows double hung with patent lines, the pulleys placed at thecounter check, with the lines within, so as not to be seenfrom the room, and glazed with first crown glass. The bedrooms finished similar to the principal rooms, but without sur-base mouldings, and with simpler mouldings round the doorsand windows. All the doors of the rooms, in the main house,should be two inches thick, have mortice locks, and hung oncentre hinges; the doors sunk two inches within the face ofthe architrave. The railing of the staircase should be madeof cast-iron, and the hand rail of mahogany. The floorsover the principal rooms are to be deafened with forge ashesand dried sand, mixed with as much wrought lime as willhold them firmly together, and laid all over at two inchesand a half thick, filling up every opening and chink. Whenthe floors arc laid, before putting up the sciftings all thespace, at the bottom of the walls, between the wall and the

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