Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... noticed the Wellington College at Sandhurst, which, with the land belonging to it, has cost about 100,000. It is a quadrangle of 260 feet in length, by 154 in width, the sides of which are the north and south wings of the building. This building, which the writer has examined, stands in a somewhat exposed situation. The towers which lead to the sleeping-rooms are partly used as ventilating shafts through which a constant flow of pure air is kept up, while foulair shafts provide for carrying off the vitiated atmosphere from below. The partitions which separate the boys' rooms are carried up to within a few feet of the ceiling, so that the fresh air circulates freely along the whole length of the dormitory from north to south. The vitiated air from the dormitories is carried off by VENTILATED SPONTANOUSLY. Ill means of a horizontal wooden conduit, perforated with small holes, to ventilating shafts in the angles of the towers. In these shafts ring gas-burners are placed for the occasional rarefaction of the air. The fresh air is heated in winter by hot-water pipes, and enters the corridors of the dormitories through gratings in the floor. The same method of admitting the warm air is adopted for the Hall and School-rooms. From what has already been said about the inconvenience arising from admitting air by floor-gratings, as also extracting vitiated air at the lower part of rooms, it is sufficient merely to point it out, to show that there is little improvment of the system adopted at this building. It may be doubted whether any advantage can be derived from the dormitories communicating at the upper part of the partitions within a few feet of the ceiling; for instead of " fresh air circulating freely along the whole length, .."."
