Some learned men have supposed that the Greeks and Romans had no chimneys; it is, however, easy to prove the contrary. Philocleo, a character in the comedy of the “_Wasps_” of Aristophanes, hides himself in a chimney. A slave who hears him, cries out, “What a noise there is in the pipe of this chimney!” Philocleo, being discovered, exclaims, “I am the smoke, and I am trying to escape.”[XXII-56] Appian, speaking of the proscriptions of the triumvirs, relates that several citizens fled into the pipes of the chimneys.[XXII-57] These two examples will preclude the necessity of more ample citations. A vast cauldron of brass from Argos,[XXII-58] or Dodona,[XXII-59] placed on a tripod above the fireplace, furnishes the hot water required for the service of the kitchen. The frying-pan, beside it, serves in the cooking of certain delicate cakes or fish.[XXII-60] The magiric laboratory, to which the reader is invited, is very nicely decorated with a profusion of utensils similar in every respect to our own in point of shape--such as gridirons, cullenders, dripping-pans, and tart dishes. These objects are of tolerably thick bronze, plated with fine silver.[XXII-61] Charming shells of the same metal, serve to mould the pastry,[XXII-62] which is afterwards disposed with order on the shelves of a country oven,[XXII-63] or in the upper part of the authepsa,--a kind of saucepan of Corinthian brass, of considerable value, and made with such art that its contents cook instantly and almost without fire.[XXII-64] This simple and ingenious vessel possesses a double-bottom; the uppermost one holds DESCRIPTION OF PLATE No. XII. From the ancients very little is left us of their kitchen utensils; however, the vessels and instruments which they used must have been in great variety; they had boilers called by the names of _caldarium_, _cacabus_, _cortina_, _adhenum_; chaldron, _lebes_; stewpan, _sartago_; saucepan, _pultarium_; the cullender, with small holes perforated, Pliny calls _colum_, and more modern writers _verna_; spoons, in Latin, _cochlear_ or _cochleare_; forks and hooks, to draw the meat out of the stockpots, they named _creagra_ and _fuscina_; the dishes were called _lances_, _disci_, _patina_, _patella_, or _catini_; and distinguished from plates by the size, and sometimes the shape. =No. 1.= Stockpot, with a large ladle and cullender attached, with small holes; appeared on the column of Trajan, together with the stewpan of Silenus. =No. 2.= Broken stewpan, in bronze. =No. 3.= Smaller one. These three articles of kitchen utensils are from the cabinet of M. l’Abbé Charlet.--“_Antiquités de Montfaucon._” the light delicacies destined for the dessert, and the fire is underneath.[XXII-65]