Of Chimnies.
IN the present business, Italians (who make very frugal fires, are perchance not the best Coun∣sellers.) Therefore from them we may better •…•…earn, both how to raise fair Mantels within the rooms, and how to disguise gracefully the shafts of Chimnies abroad (as they use) in sundry forms, (which I shall handle in the latter part of my Labour) and the rest I will extract from Phi∣lippe de l'Orme; in this part of his Work more dili∣gent, then in any other; or, to do him right, then any man else.
First, he observeth very soberly, that who in the disposition of any Building will consider the nature of the Region, and the Winds that ordinarily blow from this, or that Quarter; might so cast the rooms which shall most need fire, that he should little fear the incommodity of Smoke: and there∣fore he thinks that inconvenience, for the most part, to proceed from some inconsiderate begin∣ning. Or if the errour lay not in the Disposition, but in the Structure it self; then he makes a Logical enquiry, That either the Wind is too much let in