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a mile of it, are the remains of an ancient house, of a very uncom- 
mon description. It consists of one apartment, of considerable 
size, with two doors opposite each other, like our modern cabins; 
and two small windows. It has no fire-place or chimney, and is 
built without gables. The roof stood on large beams, placed per- 
pendicularly in the wall, the spaces which they occupied still re- 
maining. It is built with lime made from calcined oyster shells. 
I once thought, that this house was copied from the old church of 
Code, situated about a mile from it; but, when I consider that it 
has no gables; and that, in taking the church for a model, they 
probably would have adopted a framed roof, in preference to the 
other clumsy contrivance, I am inclined to think it of an older 
date. The church, besides, is built with stone lime, which gives it a 
more recent date. This house I preserve with great care; but 
there is one more in this country, which will soon share the fate 
of all mundane structures. 
The whole family, cows, pigs, dogs, and horses, we are told, 
lived promiscuously within the walls of this ample mansion, a cus- 
tom still remaining amongst the lower orders, A little distance 
from this house stands an unfinished castle, which tradition tells 
us (I do not vouch for the fact) was intended, at a more recent pe- 
riod, for the residence of the family which occupied this house ; but 
which, being built through the vanity and ambition of the lady of 
the soil in the absence of her lord, was by him discontinued at his 
return home, and never completed. ‘There is also a good modern 
house on this farm ; so that all the changes, from the most rude state 
of society (if it deserves that name) to its present happy state of 
improvement, may here be traced. 
I have only to add, that from the appearance of the land here, 
it seems to have been formerly more thickly inhabited than at pre- 
sent; and certainly more so than the surrounding country. 
