( 39° )

The workman will obferve, that a thin piece of mahogany Aides
out in a groove, to afford accefs to the weights, and afterwards
enclofe them.
There is a drawer under the top, which extends the whole
of the fpake between the legs. f
The fcale fhews the length of the table, b its height, a the
depth of the drawer, b c the depth of the iide-boxes, and e d the
height of the fwell of the fcreen part; the width of the table is
twenty inches.

Of the Tripod Fire-Screens. Plate XXXVIII.
Screens of this kind are termed tripod-, becaufe they
have three feet or legs.
The middle fcreen may be finiihed in white and gold, or
japanned; and the other two of mahogany, or japanned. The
rods of thefe fcreens are all fuppofed to have a hole through
them, and a pulley let in near the top on which the line paffes,
* Tripod, of treis, three; and podion, a foot. Anciently the word tripod
ufed to be applied to a kind of facred three-footed ftool, on which the heathen priefts werf
featcd to receive and deliver their oracles: from which we may learn how time alters
words.
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