. Farm implements, and the principles of their construction and use; an elementary and familiar treatise on mechanics, and on natural philosophy generally, as applied to the ordinary practices of agriculture ... CHIMNEY-CAPS. 231 Fig. wind, at the same time that the surface issmaller on which the wind can strike thecurrent, as shown in Fig. 192. A chim-ney of this character may be very easilymade by contracting the tiers of brick, thusgiving to it an ornamental appearance, asseen in Fig. 193.* * Where different fires communicate with the same chimney, sep-arate flues should be built for
. Farm implements, and the principles of their construction and use; an elementary and familiar treatise on mechanics, and on natural philosophy generally, as applied to the ordinary practices of agriculture ... CHIMNEY-CAPS. 231 Fig. wind, at the same time that the surface issmaller on which the wind can strike thecurrent, as shown in Fig. 192. A chim-ney of this character may be very easilymade by contracting the tiers of brick, thusgiving to it an ornamental appearance, asseen in Fig. 193.* * Where different fires communicate with the same chimney, sep-arate flues should be built for each fire, and kept separate in the samechimney-stack, carried up independently of each other. But evenwith this precaution, smoky rooms will not be avoided, unless the ter-mination of the chimney is of the right form, of which the followingillustration is given in Allens Rural Architecture: Fifteen years ago we purchased and removed into a most substan-tial and well-built stone house, the chimneys of which were construct-ed with open fireplaces, and the flues carried up separately to the top,where they all met upon the same level surface, as chimneys in pastFig. 194. times usually were built, thus. Every fireplace in the house (and
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