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amount of digging and levelling to give an easy and slopes. lLandslips constantly occurred. Cuttin the elaborate precautions we had taken, the water | of wet weather, tearing down great masses of earth. though fortunately with a more permanent result. the bricks, which came from all parts of the count direct to the foot of the hill, up which the trucks the building, as well as for the farmsteads, cottage some miles by road. Percheron mares were impc serviceable, for though less enduring they travelle horses. They have- since doubled in price. Wher These horses were employed principally in c from all parts of the neighbourhood, and for th had to be temporarily displaced. They were trar lowered into the ground by a system of chains, structed carts, each drawn by a team of sixteen | they quickly clothed and adorned the bare hill. who may feel inclined to follow my example—it i perhaps excepted, and even these should not be m may be the experience and skill of the men enga bear the change from the soil and the climatic c your patience at first, but they soon catch up the But much that was of far greater moment ha