In this manner M. Soyer
calculated he would be able to give one meal every day to at least five
thousand persons, from an establishment the size of the one at the Royal
Barracks. At the entrance, in the centre, was the weighing machine.
There was what was called a glaze-pan over the steam boiler capable of
holding three hundred gallons, and, at the end, an oven to bake one
hundred weight of bread at a time, and all heated by the same fire.
Round the two supports of the roof were circular tin boxes for the
condiments. Seven feet from the ground at each corner was placed a safe
five feet square and seven feet high, with sides of wire for
ventilation, which contained respectively meat, vegetables, grain, and
condiments. At the same elevation as the safes were sixteen butts,
containing _seventeen hundred and ninety-two gallons of water_.
[253] The Commission of 1809 on the reclamation of the bogs of Ireland
returned as improvable:
1,576,000 acres of flat bog;
1,254,000 acres of mountain top bog;
2,070,000 acres of convertible mountain bog.
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4,900,000 acres in all.
[254] "Waste Lands of Ireland: Suggestions for their immediate
reclamation, as a means of affording reproductive employment for the
able-bodied destitute.
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