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it, thus finishing all that part which is usually seen
by visitors who ride out from Boston or Cambridge. The
estimate for the whole front fence is about $18,700 of
which it will be seen that 10.000 is more than half.
The remaining lesser half we should be able to finish in
a year or two.

2 For obtaining pure water we should begin
a ditch or drain, at the salt marsh as low as the tide
water, and continue it into Meadow Pond, thence by
a channel, or culvert, into Forest, and Garden Ponds, and
from the latter into the meadow west of the gate.
This would enable us to drain our low grounds, and drain
and clean out the ponds, and if, as Mr Howe thinks, we
should strike springs, we might have running water with-
out going to Fresh Pond. But if not this enterprise may
be extended hereafter. I should think $4.000 sufficient for
the above purpose. Mr Coolige's consent must be obtained
to a ditch through his low land near Charles river.

3 A Hedge is wanted on the 3 back sides. The
principal expense would be for digging a trench and filling
it with soil from the ponds. Mr Howe can raise the
plants at a trifling cost.

4 A Chapel such as you propose might be erected
of rough stone on some Gothic model, for less than $5.000,
I think. We must select some spot with sufficient un-
occupied ground to be kept for its prospective enlargement.
In the opposite figure, the building is
in black and the prospective addition
is dotted of the shape which I under-
stand to meet your views.

[Image: line drawing of a cruciform plan with only the nave, or left-most rectangle, a solid line.]

Where shall it stand? Unfor-
tunately some of our best sites are occupied with lots