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and burnt, most of which were used in building 
chimneys : upwards of seven hundred thousand 
feet of timber have been felled, and sawn up into 
plank, board, scantling, &c. ; and more than two 
hundred thousand shingles have been split, and 
made use of. Three substantial weather-board 
dwelling-houses, forty feet by twenty, with skil- 
ling at the back, and returned at the ends, have 
been erected ; likewise stables for the accom- 
modation of twelve or fourteen horses, stores, 
carpenters'* shops, blacksmiths’ shops, out-houses, 
eight or ten weather-board cottages, twenty feet 
by fifteen ; and a spacious Chapel, capable of 
holding from three to four hundred persons. 
The Mission-houses are fenced in with paling, 
and contain upwards of thirty acres ; and all the 
inner fences and arrangements are completed. 
Such was the state of the Waimate, early in 1834, 
the commencement of its fourth year. The whole 
of the ground within these fences is broken up ; 
some laid down with clover and grass ; other 
parts appropriated to orchards, well stocked with 
fruit-trees ; others, to good vegetable gardens ; 
and portions, also, devoted to the service of the 
married natives, as gardens around their neat 
little domiciles. Outside the fences, and in what 
may be properly termed the farm, there are more 
than forty-eight acres sown with wheat, barley, 
oats, maize, lucerne, &c., of which about thirty 
acres were reaped last season. A prospect more 
pleasing cannot meet the eye of the philanthropist 
