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The report being read, was unanimously approved, and 

 the thanks of the company voted and presented to the 

 committee, for the prompt and diligent attention mani- 

 fested in the performance of the laborious duty assigned 

 them. 



They were thereupon discharged, and the meeting ad 

 journed. 



W. M , Jr. Act'g Sec'ry. 



The transportation of the materials of the old buildings 

 and of new, progressed and was soon completed, and the 

 re-building of the Castle and the kitchen on substantial stone 

 foundations, was prosecuted tardily, but they were how- 

 ever completed and occupied in the course of mid-summer. 



The lithographic view executed at the establishment of 

 Col. Childs, under his immediate direction by M. Swett, 

 from a drawing of his, accompanying this historic sketch, 

 exhibits with all the accuracy its limits will permit, the 

 building termed a Castle, with its cupula and dinner sound- 

 ing bell, and its vane, surmounted by a finny emblem. The 

 Castle is 18 feet in width and 52 in depth, affording ample 

 accommodation to dine upwards of eighty persons. 



To the left of the entrance, in the foreground, is a con- 

 venient store and bar room for the Caterer of the day, 

 and on the left a closet, for the deposit of culinary uten- 

 sils, tools, &c. The whole building is well calculated for 

 comfort in warm weather, being furnisned with a number 

 of large mndows and doors on everv side. 



