. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 4J8 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt II. and a half; consequently, as each foot rises the height of two steps, or fifteen inc
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 4J8 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Pakt II. and a half; consequently, as each foot rises the height of two steps, or fifteen inches, every time it is moved, it is plain that six steps of this kind will rise as high as twelve in the common way, and will require only one half the size of a hatch or opening in the floor above, that would be required for those twelve steps as usually constructed. This will be of considerable advantage, where much is required to be made of little room, and will of course give more space to the chambers above ; but it has the disad- vantage of being disagreeable, and even dangerous to descend, especially for pregnant women and young children. 2896. Of what are called ornamental cottages for labourers, we shall say little. Utility is a beauty of itself, but there are higher degrees of that sentiment excited by the appear- ance of convenience and abundance ; by the evidence of design or intelligence in the contriver as displayed in the elevation and general effect, and by classical, imitative, or picturesque forms in the masses and details. The great evil, however, is, that these ornamental cottages, as generally constructed, are felt by the occupiers to be very uncom- fortable habitations ; every thing being sacrificed by the designer to external appearance. This is in the very worst taste, and has, in most parts of the country, brought ornamental cottages into ridicule. Utility, therefore, is the main consideration, and nothing ought to be considered as ornamental that is at
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