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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 924 — CHIMNEYS.

William Johnston translation

The name atrium had its rise from the walls of such places being black with smoke. Isidorus, xv. 3. This derivation is given also by Servius, Æn. lib. i. ver. 730.

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