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extent ; and many an old wall which was built fifty or a 

 hundred years ago, at great labor and cost, perhaps for the 

 purpose of getting rid of a surplus of rocks that en- 



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cumbered the land, and has come to occupy twice or 

 three times the space orginally allotted to it, is now 

 being removed and buried beneath the surface or other- 

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