Warmington.
_Hougoumont_ (Vol. iv., p. 313.).--The assertion of your correspondent
A. B. R. I have met with before, but forget where: viz. that the proper
designation of the château in question is _Goumont_, and that
_Hougoumont_ is only a corruption of _Château Goumont_.
This may be the case; but the Duke must not be charged with the
corruption, for I have now before me a map of the Département de la
Dyle, published "l'An 8 de la République Française, à Bruxelles, &c.,
par Ph. J. Maillart et Soeur," &c., in which the place is distinctly
called _Hougoumont_.