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bad been madf , and the plan of the basement nndemeath in detail. By a 

 careful study ot this plan, our readers may be able to gather some valuable 

 hints and suggestions. The original building was the common 32x'12 feet 

 bam, with fourteen posts, a fourteen-feet floor in the middle, with bay on 

 one side and stable on the other, with a lean-to of thirteen feet in the rear, 

 the building standing on the line of the road and facing the west, the 

 grounds descending say one foot in thirty to northeast. It was first raised 

 so that the northeast comer would clear six feet, dug out to a level of one 

 foot below that of the lowest comer: then a ditch was dug one and a hal' 

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BBiall stone. A substantial stone wall was laid on the west side, and tweatr 

 feet on both north and south ends; the rest of the building was double- 

 boarded save where protected by other buildings. The front doors were 

 then closed, the floor taken up, cut out the bay girts, and laid oflf a floor of 

 twenty feet on the west side (space reaching from the ground to roof), made 

 a floor twelve feet wide in upright and all of lean-to — in all twenty-five feet, 

 and cut a door in south end. The bay now would hold more than the whole 

 bam before; a largo floor, 25x42, thirteen feet of which can be used to store 

 grain, and a space of 25x42 feet for stablfe. A good idea of the interior 

 construction may be dbtained from the illustrated plan of the base- 

 ment. 



