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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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esco de Carraro, lord of Padua, came to Rome in 1368, and finding no chimneys in the inn where he lodged, because at that time fire was kindled in a hole in the middle of the floor, he caused two chimneys, like those which had been long used in Padua, to be constructed and arched by masons and carpenters whom he had brought along with him. Over these chimneys, the first ever seen in Rome, he affixed his arms, which were remaining in the time of Gataro (the narrator), who died of the plague in 1405. Fireplace and chimney in Conisborough Castle. Among the earliest English chimneys of which we have any knowledge is that of the large firehearth in the great guard-room of Conisborough Castle, erected in or near the Anglo-Saxon period. The mantel is supported by a wide arch, with two transom stones running under it; the back of the fireplace, where it joins the hearth, is in a line with the walls of the room, and the recess at the mantel is formed by the back of the fireplace sloping