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light it with gas. The Committee do not apprehend that any 

 one conversant with building, who considers the character 

 and extent of this edifice, will think the sura which has 

 been spent upon it unreasonably great. 



" Under the second head is placed the expense of the 

 entrance lodge and gates, the boundary walls and out- 

 buildings, which amounts to 1150/. On this head the 

 Committee have only to remark, that the magnitude of the 

 charge is owing to the extent of ground which was to be 

 enclosed, and which required boundary walls of more than 

 300 yards in length, besides other fencing. 



" The THIRD head comprises the repairs of the ruined 

 Abbey, the excavations carried on to trace the old founda- 

 tions of the Monastery, the formation of the roads, walks, 

 and grounds, and the laying out of the Garden. The total 

 of this expenditure is 831/. Such operations could neither 

 be exactly calculated, nor confined within a fixed limit ; but 

 they were vigilantly superintended, both by the Clerk of the 

 works and by several members of the Committee. 



" The furniture of the Museum, and the new cabinets 

 prepared for the reception of specimens, form the fourth 

 head of the account ; and on these has been expended the 

 sum of 527/. : such an addition to the former accommoda- 

 tions having become absolutely necessary, to display even 

 the present riches of the Society to any advantage. 



" Lastly, under the fifth and sixth heads are classed 

 the claims of former occupiers of the premises now belonging 

 to the Society, which amount to 191/., and the bills for 



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