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Small properties that ran into the estate on all sides had some were unwilling to sell, others held their land by a cc leases. ‘Tenants had to be dispossessed and otherwise provic had to be acquired; the dilapidated homesteads pulled down | flour-mill purchased and demolished to make room for the | the whole of the land had to be drained, interminable dou the arable fields sown with grass, and, last though not least, « It would be wearisome to give a more minute accoun negotiations which attended the purchase of these small proj various works which had to be carried out, and which at one removal of one nuisance frequently opened out a vista to a1 away, and the acquisition of one plot of ground usually nece: In the same way, the planting of a covert or a shrubbery « surroundings which had then also to be planted; and as we alterations were constantly demanded. Even when after n labours the park could not be enclosed in a ring fence, f land came to the very edge of the principal drive, and on farmer, stood in a direct line with the terrace. Neither purchase or exchange. ‘I am anxious for this ground of to Wootton; ‘for were you to put up buildings on it my smile, and he took me to a window on the first floor of h the spot; ‘were you to build on it, and you might, my vi successor, Lord Temple, proved more tractable. I owe 8