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poorhouse at Bishop Auckland has been, during the preceding summer, whitewashed every six weeks. The method of preparing the lime (which is rock or stone lime from Coxhoe, about ten miles from Auckland, and costs, including carriage, four-pence a bushel) is as follows:—a large tub is procured to slake it in, and this is filled with lime nearly to the top, cold water being poured upon it by degrees, and it being stirred with a stick that is broad at one end, until the tub is filled with lime: when the lime and water are well incorporated, and of the consistence of mud, it is to be taken out of the tub with a wooden scoop, and strained through