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on a scale of such grandeur that I begged him to ion of a second and more modest proposal. This I egret your decision,’ he said to me at the time; ‘ove r I had lived in the house for a while I was com- reater outlay was eventually incurred than had the ort and inconvenience caused by the presence of the uilding is less effective, and while spreading over as inds is called—its highest point being 614 feet above » On the north is the long range of the Chiltern distance ; on the west is Wootton, the former abode e mass of woodland. Towards the north the eye ast the Vale of Aylesbury winds along. Lodge Hill mhouse on its top, to which a rough track for carts ticed its singular formation—the result probably of a / came into my possession nearly all the timber had re was not a bush to be seen, nor was there a bird f the richness of the soil. A deep gash was made in the construction of rockeries, and has since been e death of the great Duke, by Sarah, Duchess of of whose romantic and eccentric career we may well : Whartons, who had inherited the land from the