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FOURTH PERIOD 530 MORAY HOUSE twice that of the other walls of the house. It was so constructed to contain the kitchen fireplace,, which was always of very ample dimensions. This is the only mode of accounting for the great thickness of this wall which occurs to us ; and it further explains the use of a lofty chimney-