John Bellows Letters and memoir . ^ building; but my littledictionary has sold well, and the profits of the work haveshortened the period of waiting. When I broke down so utterly last spring, as tobe for some time incapable of any work, my wife wiselyforesaw that the change to life in the country, and thechange of occupation and interests involved in building ahouse, would be better for me, when convalescent, thanreturning to the old groove at Gloucester. So by the endof summer we had brought our plans to feasible shape,and at once set the work in hand. The house is of oolitestone, lined with
John Bellows Letters and memoir . ^ building; but my littledictionary has sold well, and the profits of the work haveshortened the period of waiting. When I broke down so utterly last spring, as tobe for some time incapable of any work, my wife wiselyforesaw that the change to life in the country, and thechange of occupation and interests involved in building ahouse, would be better for me, when convalescent, thanreturning to the old groove at Gloucester. So by the endof summer we had brought our plans to feasible shape,and at once set the work in hand. The house is of oolitestone, lined with brick. The stone is quarried further upthe hill, so that it only has to be hauled down to brick and timber have to be hauled up, and a prettytug it is ; sometimes seven or eight or even ten horses ina line at one load. The ascent is very pretty (thoughI doubt whether the horses think so;) steep banks oneither hand covered with hedge maple and clematis, with ^ ^. UPTON LANDSCAPES 51 fine oak trees at intervals, and orchards behind thecottages which dot the way all along—a road, so a friendtells me who has lived for a year on the Syrian mountains,Hke that from Beyrout to Damascus, where it begins toclimb Lebanon. On the top of this is a table-land of aquarter-mile wide, when a second higher hill rises—Painswick Camp. Our house is at the beginning of thistable-land. It gives us a beautiful series of landscapes,including the Forest of Dean and some of the Cambrianmountains, the Wyndcliff on the Wye, the Severn Bridgeand broad expanse of water, the towns of Gloucester,Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and Worcester (I wish it wereWorcester, Mass.!) the Malvern Hills and hills in Hereford-shire, and the line of the Cotteswold Hills. To William Phimbe, Mansfield. Saintbridge House, nr. Gloucester, reference to thy remark about the importance theearly Friends attached to manifestations of the unseen, Ibelieve it safe to say they regarded these a
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