ABSTRACT
The fire grate, it must be readily admitted, can never be the most perfect contrivance for warming our apartments. The heat from it diminishes so rapidly with the increase of distance, that it is impossible it can ever give that equality of temperature which can be gained by the use of hot water pipes, or by hot air supplied to a room at various points. The heat from it diminishes so rapidly with the increase of distance, that it is impossible it can ever give that equality of temperature which can be gained by the use of hot water pipes, or by hot air supplied to a room at various points. The exceptional cases, when a fire is required to burn continuously, as for many ailing persons, or for a short period only, as in bedrooms, dressing rooms, the sitting rooms of persons in lodgings, employed elsewhere during the day, are few in comparison.
