Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-02-24

cd n The walls. Hence the advantage OF
wooden window hutters-of double gl.fs win
tfows-ot double or hollow covirgs in open fire
places, and double vaultng in thoie that are
elofe and 10 of double covers to confine the
heat in common boiler. Hence the peculiar
advantage Of glow hoes, of loofe drawers-of
wool and fur for cloathing--of feathers TOR
bedding--and a covering, even OF inow, IN
winter to prelerve the heat of the earth. In
thefe, and many other inaances, the heat or
warmth, is confined, or increaled, by the later
vention OF air in quefcent fate, thro' which
the heat cannot pats In ihort, II is upon this
principle, that our ingenious author, has con-
ilrueled his whole apparatus for the economy
of heat and fuel. l had long known and la
mented the prodigious waite of fuel, which at
tends the con- mon mode of cooking, and often
propoied method of accumulatng heat, not
very diilimar to what is here propelled; but
never did | imagine, that the reiult of actual
experiment, would have carried the economy OF
fuel to faying of nine tenths of the whole-or
that pot or boiler, funicient fot a family,
could have been boiled with ltfs quantity of
wood than two pounds of dry pine and Gill
Ieis when the numbers to be provided for are
large. But when 10 this faving of Fuel, we
nou,iihiup meal, for an adult perfou, is obtain
ed at lefs expence than two iarthings we are
amoa ready to difmifs our anxiety for the
poor. The feeling heart. 70 often filled with
pain at the fight, the ihivering fight OF thoie
forty piles of wood, or rather ragged roots
and rotten aumps, and fcraggy buih lying at
the door of the poor mans bleak cottage, is
now relieved neither piercing winds, nor
pnching cold, need diRurb my cafe, while
lii and folace myfef in the dffulive warmth of
my own fire. The poor mans children, in
sattered garments, half covered and fhiyering,
need no more ihiver in the finoke, or hover
again ever few fafhy fticks or Goals, faint
and dying on the fquailid hearth of fome open
fire place, made large and deep for convenience
or necefIity Of family cooking, and which at
once fwallovs up and carries off the principal
part of the heat generated by the combultion
of the fuel For FIRE places may now be re-
duced to the frnallelt iize, and brought forward
into tic room, which, if properly ftuated to
the fun, made tight, of moderate hze, low
in the walls, defended by window lhutters, and
its fire fupplied by fuel which has been mode
rately feafoned under cover, or if cheap
Rove placed in the centre of the room, be made
.ufe of, inRead of a FINAL fire place, the guam
tity of fuel neccaary to warm the room, will
in either cafe be reduced 20 compar alive trif1e.
While the bufinefs of family cooking (which 10
this way, aide from the faving of fuel, is at
tended with far lefs uouble) may be performed
by means of clofe fire place, made for the
+, puYpoie and at fmall expenfe. fhis willrequire
little bafides few bricks, and fome coarfe clay.
The CRATES may be made of brick inaead of
iron A tile brick will ferve for the door, both
of the aih pit and fire place. A Jingle brick
will anfwer for the regiaer, and another for a
damper. The boiler may be of Gait iron To-
Read of copper, made in proper form, and its
cover, iniiead Of tin, may be made OF wood,
which is a non-conduttor Of heat.-Thus ac-
commodated. the induirous poor may difmifs
their fears but not their gratitude to the man
Whole benevolcnce 70 much reiembles that
amiable attribute in Deity, which ihines con
fpicuous, not only in multiplying the number
OF animated exiltences, but in providing means
for their fubfiRence. The inhabitants of any
country will iacreafe in numbers, in proportion
70 the means of iubGltencc he therefore who
can make TO grow three fpres OF grais, where
two only g, sw before, merits more of his coun-
try than he who writes an epic poem. But It
foeh is the claim of one who multiples OF ami
NAL exiftence only, what mutt be due to him
who deviies the means OF multiplying rational
cxiRence In this view it may perhaps be
faid, that one Count RUMPoRD is worth an
hundred PoPss-that one of his boilers is OF
more value than Iliads of Homer, and the
philofophy even Of his foup, exceeds much the
famed philofophy of Newton-becaufe they are,
in fenfe, prolific of human beings and human
happinefs. Newton, it isfaid, by experiments
made on foap bubbles blown up with tobacco
Pipe, Investigated the colours of the rainbow !;
but Rnmfcrd has done more with his blow.
pipe---he has Investigated the bea .Arm of
boiler, and the bet method of applying heat.
Franklin, the great American philosopher, by
kite projected into the air. has brought fire
from heaven to earth. I" But greater than
Franklin is here" for Count Rumford has bro't