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fault. He submitted a plan to me at the end of a year reduce it, and another long year was spent on the preparat sanctioned, though it did not quite satisfy me. ‘You will 1 always builds too small’ And he prophesied truly. Afte pelled to add first one wing and then another; and a g original plan been carried out, not to speak of the discomf workmen in the house. Though more picturesque the b much ground it is less compact and commodious. Lodge Hill, as the small but steep hill on which it st sea-level—commands a panoramic view over several counties Hills; on the south-west the Malvern Hills loom in the far of the Grenvilles, a corner of which peeps out of a dens travels over a boundless expanse of grass-land, and on the « when first taken in hand was a misshapen cone with a fa led direct from the village. Often when hunting I had nc volcanic eruption—and its fine hedge-row timber. When it vanished, and but for a few hollies round the farmhouse the to be heard; but luxuriant crops of wheat and beet told in its side by a limestone quarry which proved most useful converted into a basin and fountain. The estate was bought in 1725, three years after th Marlborough, from the trustees of the Duke of Wharton, — regret having such scanty records. The residence of the 4