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Letter III. Extent for a single Building
most instances, to make one story of the Lodge serve for two stories of the Cells: especially
in any situation where ground is valuable, the number of persons to be inspected
large, the room necessary for each person not very considerable, and frugality
and necessity more attended to than appearance.
For this purpose, the floor of the ground story of the Lodge is elevated
to within about 4 1/2 feet of the floor of the first story of the Cells. By this
means the Inspector's eye, when he stands up, will be on, or a little above, the level
of the floor of the above mentioned upper story of the Cells: and, at any rate, he
will command both that and the ground story of the Cells, without difficulty,
and without change of posture.
As to the Intermediate Area, the floor of it is upon a level, not
with the floor of the Lodge, but with that of the lower story of the Cells. But,
at the upper story of the Cells, its place, as I have already mentioned, is supplied
by the above mentioned Gallery: so that the altitude of this Area from
the floor to the Cieling, is equal to that of both stories of the Cells put together.
The floor of the Lodge, not being on a level with either story
of the cells, but between both, it must at convenient intervals be provided
with flights of steps; to go down to the ground story of the cells, by the
intermediate Area, and up to the first floor of the cells, by the Gallery.
The ascending flights, joined to being united with the descending, enable the servants
of the house to go to the upper story of the Cells, without passing through
the apartment of the Inspector.
As to the height of the whole, and of the several parts,
it
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