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Another small building must ' adjoin this, in which are the bellows and the man who works them. Then the charcoal ' in the furnace is lighted, and the artificer continually throws broken bits of cadmia from ' the place above the furnace, whilst his assistant, who is below, throws in charcoals, until ' all of the cadmia inside is consumed. By this means the finest and lightest part of the I BOOK IX. A FURNACES. B VAULTED ROOF. C COLUMNS. D DUST-CHAMBER. E OPENING. F CHIMNEY. G WINDOW. H DOOR. I ...CHUTE. 396 BOOK IX. the cadmia ; this sweeping is done twice a year. The soot mixed with pompholyx and the cadmia, being chipped off, is thrown down through a long chute made of four boards joined in the shape of a rectangle, that they should not fly away. They fall on to the floor, and are sprinkled with salt water, and are again smelted with ore and litharge, and become an emolument to the proprietors. Such chambers, which catch the metallic substances that rise with the fumes, are profitable for all metalliferous ores ; but especially for the minute metallic particles collected by washing crushed ores and rock, because these usually fly out with the fire of the furnaces.
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