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building.

The tracing shows the latter

hinted Hack and the closet tinted red

The three floors 4. By

A ze

it will be

are the

da me

inspection of the tracing

Lee π

that nowhere in the

the

building do the closets adjoin

wards, but are

separated by

intervening ventilating lobby with

cross air- current or andahs.

the

by open ver-

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5. Having regard to the prevailing winds which blow during six months from the south west and the remain. ing six monthe from the north East

which I would have position preferred for the towers, had it been feasible, would have been at the extreme south - East and north-west corners of the building, owring to the extremely unfavourable con- figuration of the cliff, which come

close up to the building

brat

CL

The

East North and west sider, it was not possible to place the towers

at these corners, and they had there.

the viles shewn

fore to be built on

in the tracing.

6. Nor is there

aley

valid objection

to the present position of these debäck- ed lowers, for it so happens that

dione nier months of

during the

the year,

six

when all the door and

windows of

the wards are kept then

for coolness, the wind is steady from the south-wish, the

towers being

therefore to leeward of the wards.

7.

It is trice that on

the other hand

six monther of

during the remaining six

the

year

prome

the prevailing winds are the north East, this placing the towers to windward of the main build.

but it so

that during

this season

1

happens

12. the winter season,

all the doors and windows of

wards

the

will.

are kept closed for the sake of warmth, thereby adding further to the improbability of any

bad

ah

ury.