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Then we visited the Cathedral heard the afternoon Service, the music was 
fine, then to see the Cloister, and the Bishops Palace, it was surrounded
by a moat the water was clear & children were playing on the banks as tho. it was a brook, & not the scene where Knights of old struggled & fought.  The
grounds were [[my le tensin???]] & beautiful, and how green & soft was the
grass - such a wonderful sod - one finds it no where so fine as in England.
I visited for you as I always do when I enjoy anything.

Congresbury.  One S and not two, as I wrote it at first is here pronounced
as tho. it was spelled Coomsb'ry.  Sometimes I cannot understand what the people hereabouts say.  I mean the peasant class.  They turn S into