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July 1794
Remanenti
Terms upon which
they may be permitted
to outstay their
time: as the amusements
and the difficulty
of finding an
Asylum elsewhere
may induce many.
Paying down the
price of a Cabbin
with furniture?
that the means of
accommodating
pregnant ones may
not be lessened.
Or else double
or treble rent?
Consulenda
Mrs Charlotte Smith
Miss Burney that was
Mrs Moore.
Mrs Barbauld?
M Ann Ratcliffe?
Mrs Fenhault.
Authoress of Ellen?
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CABBINS — Furniture
Stove
one of Hempels 3 G:l
ones? N.B. There must
be means of heating
drinkables, such as
cawdle &c.
If a common fire
the air to come in
under the grate, that
it may not draw
through at the door
and window
Timber for the purpose
to ascend before
it descends, that it
may not choak, shew the
light through &c.
Ventilation in the
Bed place to be performed
by five apertures
in the ceiling
one at each corner,
and one in the center,
the apertures closed
by square wooden
tubes with a horizontal
arm above, as
on the outside, and
a perpendicular one
descending from it
Sliding cover in the
inside of twice the length
of the aperture — one half close, the other loose or canvas as at the Hospitals.
The window near the fire-place not to
open — lest a person
sitting with his back
to it should catch
cold.
The window on the
other side the door to
open as a sash
window
Window-Shutters
up sliding — Hendon-wise.
Dishes &c to be
washed at the Common
Kitchen or in each person's the Servants'
House.
The door to be listed
and from the top of
it a board to slope
inwards and upwards
to point the current
of air upwards to the
Ceiling on the opening
of the door.
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Cabbins Furniture
Carpets — with two
foot Carpets to be provided —
a Carpet to
cover the whole room
to be hirable
Room for a small
Piano-forte, which
must be either between
the unopening window
and the door, or on
the side opposite the
fire-place.
Interstitial Stuffing for Side-Walls
1. Chaff.
2. Chopt strace or Heath
or thirds
3. Cork chips & shavings
4. Sand with Lime
in a pulp pound
upon it to make it
bond
4. Do with Plaster
of Paris
5. Do with Coal Tar.
None to be received
who are not reported
pregnant — that it
may not be employd
by men as a receptacle
of kept mistresses
But will not the £100
or £50 advance for the
child answer that purpose
sufficiently?
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Cabins.
Mem. to build
one or two immediately
for experiment
sake. They will serve
for J. B. S. B. Upsal,
Mrs & Miss F: They
must be stationed at
first within the protection
of the Night-Watch.
Dimensions to be
determined by the
dimensions of the
things and persons
to be contained: ex. gr:
Width
1. Piano Forte
2. Chair stationed
at the Piano Forte
3. Room for passing
to the Bed-place
4. Table standing
by the fire
5. Competent space
between the table &
the Fire.
Place the above articles,
and from
them take the
measurement.
Depth
1. Chair between Window
and Fire place
2. Fire-place
3. Another Chair
4. Coal-Scuttle
Height
need not be above 7
foot. A Cabin of the
largest Man of War
is scarcely above
6 foot. The higher
pitched the room, the
more fire it will take
to warm it
Colour
1. Some invisible green
2. Some blue with
white flowered shrubs.
3. Some white with
blue flowered shrubs.
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Accommodations on the spot
1. Ice at 1/2 price: viz:
1d or 1/2d per lb. 1/2
2. Poultry
3. New laid Eggs.
4. Milk
5. Wine
6. Fruit fresh gathered
7. Vegetables fresh
8. Hot Rolls.
9. Washing cheap.
So long as they were
not numerous, they
might be supplied
with liquors from
some neighbouring
public House ex. gr:
the Falcon: J. B.
supplying the Public
House with the liquors
wholesale,
in order to ensure
the goodness of them.
Advantages
1. Fire — security against
2. Thieves and Robbers
security against
3. Situation healthy
4. Situation pleasant
5. Amusements —
see List of Amusemts
6. Accommodations
with regard to consumables —
see List
of Accommodations.
7. Exercises — see
List of Exercises
8 Cold Bath
9 Warm Bath.
10 Sotimion Coffee-Room
(for Members
only.)
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Russian Ice-Mountain or Flying Chariots
As different degrees
of rapidity would
be agreable to
different people
quere how
to regulate them?
1. By Channels of
different forms.
2. By Rollers and
Channels of different
degrees of
smoothness
. Velocity how
determinable: the
length and depth
of the pla inclined
plane being given
The first supposition
must lay
aside the consideration
of friction
Ice or Iron upon ice would
come near this.
The channels will
be like the Rail
Roads
An artificial observation
for the
fliers to set out
from, and for the
rest of the company
to view them from
It must be extensive,
in order to
hold a number
of Chariots ready
to follow one another.
The Flying-path
may be ornamented
by an Avenue
of Trees on each
side
As it must be
in a strait line
(i:e: without lateral
curvature) it will
cut off communication
between the
grounds on each side
there be enclosed over or under.
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Visitors
No person to be admitted
to any Member
without sending
in his name to her
(sealed or open) and her
signing an order for his
or her admittance.
No person to be admitted
making entry
in the Porters book of
the Member whom he
or she comes to visit:
notice being taken
whether Male or Female
and whether
he or she has been
before.
Visitor to pay a
fee (say 1d) to the
Porter for his trouble
in making the entries
together with the use
of pen, paper, sealing-wax
&c.
A place to be provided
where the Member
may see her
Visitor before he can
see her, in order for
her to be assured that
he is a person whom
she has no objection
to be seen by.
The Member enquired
after to be
called by the Porter
by a Conversation-Tube.
Visitors who come
to see the establishment,
either out of
curiosity or with a
view of taking a
Lodging, to come within
certain hours,
at which times the
Members to have notice
that they may
be on their guard
Such Visitors to pay
a fee — say 1d
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Visitors
No stranger, male
or female to be admissible
to the common
amusements:
females, by universal
consent, after
being viewed.
As all or most of
the amusements
will be to be paid
for, the Mistresses
and Independents
might be admitted
to earn their admission
money by taking
in Needle- Woman's work
Masters &c
Woman's Works
1. Needle-work
2. Millinery
3. Mantua-making
4. Ironing.
5. Clear-starching
6. Making the produce
of the Garden
into pickles and preserves.
Precautions to be taken
against the admission
of thieves &c who may
be for introducing friends
for the profits of plundering
Sewels
For a screen from
the Road if at Sewels
Moveable Slabs or
Lattice-work, invisible
green colour,
the bottom beginning
where the top of the close
Quickset Hedge ends
When the Shrubbery
in the inside is fully
grown up, these may
be removed
The Poplar trees will serve as
supports.
Jalousies better than
slabs — lighter, cheaper
more picturesque, & more
piquant.
Doors in them here
and there to be thrown
open occasionally.
For instance fronting
the walks — to be opened
on certain public hours.
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Russian Flying Chariot
Illuminated on rejoicing-days
they
will make a striking
spectacle
They might be charged
with Fireworks, &
so set off with one or
without a Rider.
Return of the Flying
Cars at first by
the Common Road:
afterwards when money
is plenty by
a strait an almost
level Rail-Road,
assisted by a Barrel
and Winch.
No: by S. B. counterpoise
perpendicular.
The traction may be
favoured by a descent
of a few feet.
Passengers may be
landed at the point
of junction between
the two Rail-Roads
from the Panopticon
Machine: paying
extra [6d] if they
choose to use the Flying
Car in going.
Calls may be made
to the Upper Starting-Post
by a Conversation-Tube.
Rail-Road of hard wood
greased — that iron may
run well in it.
The Panopticon
Flying Car, may it
not be prescribed
as an exercise by
Physicians?
History of Flying
Steeple-Flying by Ropes
Try and exhibit the
flying by Parachutes.
This Rail-Road must
run, from the commencement
of the ascent, under under a Tunnel: unless the Canal is continued so far, and the Rail-Road runs by the Canal.
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Quere a House with the
Side-Walls of Wyat's
tinned copper double
the supports and girders
cast iron
The outer plate painted
white or enamelled
to as saves it from
being too much heated
by the Sun in Summer
time.
In winter steam to
circulate between the
plates to keep warm the
inside of the house.
Russian Flying Chariot
The velocity may
be regulated, by setting
off at a higher
or lower point of the
course: the number
of miles an hour
may thus be predetermined
within a
mile or two. Say
from 12 to 24
Cars may be of
one, two, or four places.
Cars for persons
4 places 2 8
2 places 4 8
1 place 9 9
Total Places 25
Expence Cost say £6 a
place = £150
The perpendicularly
ascending Car to be
wound up by barrel
and winch with a
paul to prevent falling
in case of accident
to the Winders.
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