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    lig hted either by gas or by reflectors from the gallery above . The ground-floor of the second building would be the public dining-hall , on a level with the kitchen , for the convenience of carrying in the food ; or if the crossing of the gallery by waiters were considered a disadvantage , the communication mi ght be under ground , placing the dishes on a large frame , to descend from the kitchen by cords , to be drawn along in the same manner ,

    and to ascend in the opposite apartment , and then return for a fresh supply . Jets of water falling into stone-basins , and strong-worked ventilators , would keep it cool in summer . The floor over the dining-hall would serve as a public reading-room and library , or it might , if required , be divided into two . The floor above that might serve as a public dancing or music room , or lecture-room , or any similar purpose . The roofs of both buildings should be terraced , and joined by a platform , in order to afford a pleasant walk and prospect , when the weather might permit .

    Thus far as to that portion of the establishment whose uses are common to all the inmates . I now proceed to the private dwellings . On either side of the two buildings before described are left open spaces some eighteen feet wide , into which the side-windows look . These spaces may be planted with flowers and shrubs , either in the open air or in greenhouses , in pots , which may serve

    to adorn the dining-hall and reading-room , as well as the niches in the gallery ,, which would also be applicable to the reception of paintings or statues , in the lighter parts , falling beneath the skylights . Beyond these open spaces or gardens are placed the first four houses , each with a front of eighteen feet , and about thirty feet in depth , standing in pairs back to back , and joining over the roof of the gallery . On the sides next the public buildings there are no windows . The look-out will be from the front and on one

    side , the latter into a g arden ei ghteen feet in width , and bounded by the wall of the gallery on one side , and the back wall of the next house on the other . The roof of the gallery , provided with skylights , would rise to a sufficient height between the two dwellings placed back to back , and thus prevent the inmates from overlooking each other ' s gardens . The entrance or hall-door of the dwellings would open into the gallery , and low windows would give access to the gardens . The front portion of the gardens mi g ht be screened from the observation of passengers by a lig ht hedge and trellised wicket ; beyond which , running parallel with the whole range of buildings , and accessible to all , might be a

    narrow strip of garden , with shrubs and flowers , after the style of the ordinary squares about town . The first six pair of dwellings , on either hand the public buildings , might be of larger size than the others , containing—say , six or eight rooms on the ground plan before described . The other nine pair of dwellings beyond them might contain from four to six rooms on a ground-plan of

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    576 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/46/