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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 PORCH. 
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 tliere interred without 
