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she soon got rid of by poison. I attached little credence | Winchendon Church was being restored, a coffin was foun plate bearing the inscription, ‘Madame B.,’ and the date « death by tradition, which was thus—in part, at least—vindicz As soon as the architect, the landscape gardener, and tl but at the outset were brought face to face with a most s water supply, as the few springs in the fields were not to fortunately contain an inexhaustible quantity of excellent wat skill to the advantage of the immediate neighbourhood an lost in coming to terms with the Company, laying down s village and thence to the projected site of the house, and kL subsequently proved insufficient for our wants, as one dry su energy, who sat up all night at the Works sending us up next day. To obviate the recurrence of a similar difficulty : Then we had some trouble with the foundations of th its site consists of sand, and the foundations after having b have been set deep enough, as they suddenly gave way. TI and thirty feet of sand excavated until a firm bottom of clay + of the task I had undertaken. But the difficulty of building transforming a bare wilderness into a park, and I was so d during four years I rarely went near the place. Slowest and which the available labourers of the neighbourhood were eng direction of Mr. Alexander, a London engineer, and M. Lain 6