Description of the Girard College for Orphans

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Excerpt from Description of the Girard College for Orphans: Contained in a Final Report of the Building Committee to the Select and Common Councils of Philadelphia, A Report to the Building CommitteeThe ¿ooring of the interior of the building amounts in the aggregate to superficial feet, all of Which is done with marble tiles prepared ex pressly for the work, they are sawed of uniform thickness, and the edges worked square so as to prevent them from becoming loose, as is usually the case with tiles that are not uniform throughout.The building is warmed by means of four furnaces placed under the vesti bules, with fines to convey the warm air to the several rooms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.