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compare Somersetshire work with what occurs in the 

 bordering districts of Devon, Wilts, and Dorset. It would 

 be also desirable to compare it witli the other great land of 

 Perpendicular, East Anglia, of which I know personally 

 next to nothing, but where, from all I can gather, the style 

 must assume a very different form. "VMiether I can make 

 all these investigations before your next Annual Meeting ia 

 very doubtful ; but I trust, that if not at that, at least at 

 some subsequent one, 1 may be able to put so necessary a 

 finish to the examination of a subject which, what with 

 joumeying, drawing, and writing, has been the business of 

 many hours, which I am by no means inclined to regret aa 

 either unpleasantly or unprofitably spent. 



