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Rooms 7 feet 4 inches in the middle; 6 feet 7 inches at each side; the
difference is occasioned by the form of the Roof which of course is a little
arched for the sake of strength that upon occasion it may bear a man.
The front Room occupying only the hinder half of the 3.d Link on which
it stands forms the Anti Room for Attendants; That immediately behind
it occupies the whole of the fourth and forms the Dining Room. Of the
5th Link the front half forms a Drawing Room or Dressing Room whichever
you please to call it, into which her Majesty with a select party may withdraw
from the Dining Room; behind the Drawing or Dressing Room is the Bedchamber
with two Cabbins for Attendants and other Conveniences ; the place for the Bed
is an Alcove taken out of the breadth and occupying the middle part of
that breadth; just at the hind part of the link fronting it is a very neat
cabbin stove in the English Taste made on purpose. The whole length of the
Room is filled with Windows on each side separated only by pannels of
six inches wide; Height of the Windows three feet all along, width of
each Window two feet and a half, to each Window four panes, the Woodwork
very light, the Windows draw up and down and there is a Blind
each of them that does the same — Between the Anti Room and the Dining
Room there is necessarily a space of two or three feet or more, to give
room for managing the junction of the two Links; so for the same reason
is there between the Dining Room Link and the Link which contains the
Drawing or Dressing Room and Bedchambers

I had left the above space vacant for the purpose of attempting something
in the way of a Drawing but I can make nothing of it —

A little short of the Extremity of the first Link stands a Half Octagon
platform about 41/2 above the Rowers seats; on this my Brother stands to —
give orders with a speaking Trumpet of which you may imagine there is
some need as the length of the whole Barge is above a quarter as long
again as that of your Garden. A Semicircular Rail covered with Scarlet Cloth
and standing on three pillars rising from the platform serves for his —

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Date_1	1787-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	352	Info in main headings field
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