stacks of chimnies. The farm house is 40 feet by 36:
In a line with this stand the coach and chaise-house, 50 feet by 36.
This is joined to the barn by a shed 70 feet in length--the barn is
200 feet by 32. Very elegant fences are erected around the mansion
house, the out-houses, and the garden.

"The prospect from this seat is extensive and grand, taking in a
horizon to the east, of seventy miles, at least. The blue hills in
Milton are discernible with the naked eye, from the windows of this
superb edifice, distant not less than sixty miles; as also the
waters in the harbor of Boston, at certain seasons of the year. When
we view this seat, these buildings, and this farm of so many hundred
acres, now under a high degree of profitable cultivation, and are
told that in the year 1766 it was a perfect wilderness, we are
struck with wonder, admiration, and astonishment. The honorable
proprietor thereof must have great satisfaction in contemplating
these improvements, so extensive, made under his direction, and,
I may add, by his own active industry. Judge Gill is a gentleman of
singular vivacity and activity, and indefatigable in his endeavors
to bring forward the cultivation of his lands; of great and
essential service, by his example, in the employment he finds for so
many persons, and in all his attempts to serve the interests of the
place where he dwells, and in his acts of private munificence, and
public generosity, and deserves great respect and esteem, not only
from individuals, but from the town and country he has so greatly
benefited, and especially by the ways in which he makes use of that
vast estate wherewith a kind Providence has blessed him."

Such was the estate, and such the man who founded and enjoyed it sixty
years ago; and many an equal estate, founded and occupied by equally
valuable men, then existed, and still exist in all our older states; and
if our private and public virtues are preserved, will ever exist in
every state of our union. Such pictures, too, are forcible illustrations
of the _morals_ of correct building on the ample estates of many of our
American planters and farmers. The mansion house, which is so
graphically described, we saw but a short time before it was pulled
down--then old, and hardly worth repairing, being built of wood, and of
style something like this design of our own, bating the extent of
veranda.

The cost of this house may