. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ay be considered themodel upon which are built most of the best outdoor ice-wells in ourcountry seats. The natural surface of the ground is shown at A; andin England it would be necessary to heap two or three feet of earthover it, whilst in hot countries eight or ten feet would be walls and the arched roof, as will be observed, are built double;but even a third vacuity,
. Healthy houses : a handbook to the history, defects, and remedies of drainage, ventilation, warming, and kindred subjects : with estimates for the best systems in use, and upward of three hundred illustrations . ay be considered themodel upon which are built most of the best outdoor ice-wells in ourcountry seats. The natural surface of the ground is shown at A; andin England it would be necessary to heap two or three feet of earthover it, whilst in hot countries eight or ten feet would be walls and the arched roof, as will be observed, are built double;but even a third vacuity, and an extra large well space, would berequisite in climates less temperate than our own. An improved formof entrance is here contrived, fitted up with five doors, the two nearestthe well mouth being closer together than any of the rest. The pas-sages inside the seeondand third doors are intended to be fitted up withshelves of slate or stone, upon which to cool liquids, or keep viandsfrom heat and decay. A small pump is fixed in the first porch, orpassage, and communicates with a well or enlarged trap in the drainof the ice-house, the ice-water being very valuable for cooling, if notfor drinking 23 £ !^»
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