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THE ANTIQUITIES 



[LETT. 



eligible than tiles. For shingles well seasoned, and cleft from 

 quartered timber, never warp, nor let in drifting snow ; nor do 

 they shiver with frost ; nor are they liable to be blown oft' 

 like tiles ; but when well nailed down, last for a long period, as 

 experience has shown us in this place, where those that face to 



VIEW LOOKING INTO SOUTH POUCH. 



the north are known to have endured, untouched, by undoubted 

 tradition for more than a century. 



Considering the size of the church, and the extent of the 

 parish, the churchyard is very scanty; and especially as all 

 wish to be buried on the south side, which is become such a 

 mass of mortality that no person can be there interred without 



