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              bituminous, then the bitumen burns and can be smelled. </s>
              <s>These furnaces have
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              a structure like the structure of the furnaces in which ore is smelted, except
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              that they are open in front; they are six feet high and four feet wide. </s>
              <s>As
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              for this kind of furnace, three of them are required for one of those in which
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              the cakes are melted. </s>
              <s>First of all they are roasted in the first furnace, then
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              when they are cooled, they are transferred into the second furnace and again
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              roasted; later they are carried to the third, and afterward back to the first,
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              and this order is preserved until they have been roasted seven or nine times.</s>
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              <s>A—CAKES. B—BUNDLES OF FAGGOTS. C—FURNACES.</s>
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              <s>END OF BOOK VIII.</s>
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