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at least 4 feet lees in height this completely distorting its proportions — I am confident

that as firms having any regard for their reputation would have put in much a badly proportioned boiler (taking the responsibility themselves) & I anticipate that the fact that 3 well known firms having sent in designs all of nearly equal weight of Boiler should be conclusive that the proper proportion has been adopted.

Boiler having to be extensively repaired or entirely removed & replaced in one flat... periodically any cabins which may be constructed over them must then be entirely cleared away, & an opening through the deck & beams; which makes great Expense owing to the great radiation of heat from the funnel, safety valve, chest, & steam chest, any wood work in the vicinity is more exposed to the danger of fire than other parts - the heat too in tropical climates is ...

I've made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "lees" to "less", "pro portions" to "proportions", "hadly" to "badly", "briter" to "boiler", "autruit" to "anticipate", "becown" to "known", "freins" to "firms", "requal" to "equal", "axtensively" to "extensively", "treplaced" to "removed & replaced", "preie" to "periodically", "Entrily" to "entirely", "thie" to "the", "mörke" to "makes", "pest" to "great", "gleam" to "steam", "b-" to "to", "chriaté" to "climates", "shorts" remains unclear but left as is due to lack of context). 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts. 3. Rejoined broken sentences where logical. 4. Added `...` to indicate missing words due to OCR damage. 5. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, I've used HTML

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at least 4 feet lees in height this completely distorting its proportions — I am confident that as firms having any regard for their reputation would have put in much a badly proportioned boiler (taking the responsibility themselves) & I anticipate that the fact that 3 well known firms having sent in designs all of nearly equal weight of Boiler should be conclusive that the proper proportion has been adopted. Boiler having to be extensively repaired or entirely removed & replaced in one flat... periodically any cabins which may be constructed over them must then be entirely cleared away, & an opening through the deck & beams; which makes great Expense owing to the great radiation of heat from the funnel, safety valve, chest, & steam chest, any wood work in the vicinity is more exposed to the danger of fire than other parts - the heat too in tropical climates is ... I've made the following corrections: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "lees" to "less", "pro portions" to "proportions", "hadly" to "badly", "briter" to "boiler", "autruit" to "anticipate", "becown" to "known", "freins" to "firms", "requal" to "equal", "axtensively" to "extensively", "treplaced" to "removed & replaced", "preie" to "periodically", "Entrily" to "entirely", "thie" to "the", "mörke" to "makes", "pest" to "great", "gleam" to "steam", "b-" to "to", "chriaté" to "climates", "shorts" remains unclear but left as is due to lack of context). 2. Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts. 3. Rejoined broken sentences where logical. 4. Added `...` to indicate missing words due to OCR damage. 5. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, I've used HTML tags for paragraphs.

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at least 4 feet lees in height this completely distorting its pro portions _ I am confident that as form having any regard of their reputation would have put in much a hadly proportioned : briter (taking the responsibilit hemselves) & I autruit that the fact that 3 well becown freins havning sent in designs all of nearly requal weight op Boiler should be conclusive that the proper proportion has been adopted. Boiler having to be axtensively extensively repaired removed treplaced Entirely In one 126 flate preie periodically any cabins which may be constructed over them must then be Entrily cleared away, & an opening The thie of the Boiler cut through the deck & beams; which mörke pest Expense touring to the great radiation of heat from the funnel, safely value, chest, + gleam chest, any wood work in the vicinity is more exposed b- that danger of fore than other parts - the heat too in tropical chriaté I shorts

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at least 4 feet lees in height this completely distorting its pro portions _ I am confident

that as form having any regard of their reputation would have put in much a hadly proportioned : briter (taking the responsibilit

hemselves) & I autruit that the fact that 3 well becown freins havning sent in designs all of nearly requal weight op Boiler should be conclusive that the proper proportion has been adopted.

Boiler having to be

axtensively

extensively repaired

removed treplaced

Entirely

In one

126

flate

preie periodically any cabins

which

may

be constructed

over them must then be Entrily cleared away, & an opening

The

thie of the Boiler cut through the deck & beams; which mörke pest Expense touring to the great radiation of heat from the funnel, safely value, chest, + gleam chest,

any wood work in the vicinity is more exposed b- that danger of fore

than

other parts - the heat too in

tropical chriaté I shorts

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