"A second cause of the smoking of chimneys is, their openings in the room being too large... Architects... have no other ideas of proportion in the opening of a chimney, than what relate to symmetry and beauty... while its true proportion, respecting its function and utility, depends on quite other principles... The proportion then to be regarded, is what relates to the height of the funnel. For... funnels in the different stories of a house are necessarily of different heights or lengths... [T]he openings of the longest funnels may be larger, and that those of the shorter funnels should be smaller. For if there be a large opening to a chimney that does not draw strongly, the funnel may... be furnished with the air it demands by a partial current... on one side of the opening... the other side free of any opposing current, may permit the smoke to issue there into the room."
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