Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society Vol I-II, III, pt I . bed, and its ufes explained, in myformer printed letter, and I mention it here only as ano-ther inftance of the tra£tability of fmoke*. What is called the Staffordihire chimney, affords an ex-ample of the fame. kind. The opening of the chimney isbricked up, even with the fore-edge of its jams, leavingopen only a paffage over the grate of the fame width, andperhaps eight inches high. The grate confifts of femicir-cular bars, their upper bar of the greatefi: diameter, theothers under
Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society Vol I-II, III, pt I . bed, and its ufes explained, in myformer printed letter, and I mention it here only as ano-ther inftance of the tra£tability of fmoke*. What is called the Staffordihire chimney, affords an ex-ample of the fame. kind. The opening of the chimney isbricked up, even with the fore-edge of its jams, leavingopen only a paffage over the grate of the fame width, andperhaps eight inches high. The grate confifts of femicir-cular bars, their upper bar of the greatefi: diameter, theothers under it fmaller and fmaller, fo that it has the ap-pearance of half a round bafket. It is, with the coals itcontains, wholly without the wall that fhuts up the chim-ney, yet the fmoke bends and enters the paflage above it,the draft being ffrong, becaufe no air can enter that is notobliged to pafs near or through the fire, fo that all thatthe funnel is filled with is much heated, and of courfemuch rarefied. D Much ?» See Appendix, N o II. 2-6. LETTER CONCERNIN( STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE-PLACE. SIDE VIEW. FRONT Much more of the profperity of a winter country de-pends on the plenty and cheapnefs of fuel, than is gene-rally imagined. In travelling I have obferved, that inthofe parts where the inhabitants can have neither woodnor coal nor turfF bat at exceflive prices, the working peo-ple live in miferable hovels, are ragged, and have nothingcomfortable about them. But where fuel is cheap, (orwhere they have the art of managing it to advantage) theyare well furniihed with necelTaries, and have decent habi-tations. The obvious reafon is, that the working hoursof fuch people are the profitable hours, and they who can-not afford fufficient fuel have fewer fuch hours in thetwenty four, than thofe who have it cheap and plenty :For much of the domeftic work of poor women, fuch as fpinning, CHIMNEYS. 27 fplnning, fewing, knitting;; and of the men in thofe ma-nufactures that require little bo
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