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fragments found at God man Chester were identical ; and sub- 

 sequent comparison has confirmed the resemblance. Several 

 other fragments I have since met elsewhere. One I found 

 on the banks of the Stour, near Cattawade Bridges, in the 

 parish of Brantham, Suffolk, which contained an injured 

 morsel of Hauyne, one of the minerals named by Dr. Hib- 

 bert (p. 124*.); and there are traces of other minerals in 

 another fragment found at Stratford, in the same county. 

 Previously to the appearance of Dr. Hibbert's work, the idea 

 of their arrival in England by means of the Romans had 

 occurred to me ; and I made a note of the kind in my com- 

 mon-place book. It is to be remembered that Godman- 

 chester was not far from a Roman station, and that the 

 Romans were established at Colchester, only a few miles 

 from Cattawade; and that at Stratford (about three miles 

 from Cattawade, up the river) has been placed the station 

 " Ad Ansam," though I have little doubt, that, whatever Ad 

 Ansam may mean, it is wrongly stated that the Romans were 

 established at Stratford ; for the distance in the Itinerary of 

 Antonine, and other considerations, would lead me to think 

 that Lawford, which is on the height of the Essex side of the 

 Stour, opposite to Cattawade, suits the position assigned 

 better than Stratford. There is some mystery in the word 

 Cattawade : local authorities, village gossips, and others, 

 derive it from the tradition of a cat which there crossed the 

 salt water. It appears to me, however, to have acquired its 

 appellation from having been a vadum, where some of the 

 auxiliary troops, probably Catti, whom Claudius brought 

 over from Gaul, when he established his guard of veterans at 

 Camelodunum, or Colchester (vid. Tacitus, Agricola, xiii.), 

 crossed the head of the estuary. The Catti got their name 

 from catte, the old German word for the animal, whom they 

 resembled in character. This digression belongs to the 

 history of the millstone lava. — W. B. Clarke. Parkstone, 

 May 21. 1833U'*>™qq« <* " #ibiqin 



Native Sidphur in the County of Northumberland. — Some 

 years ago I found minute crystals of sulphur accompanying 

 sulphuret of lead (galena), and apparently resulting from the 

 decomposition of the latter mineral, in a vein at Redpath, in 

 this neighbourhood ; a notice of which appeared in Brewster's 

 Journal for 1826, vol. v. p. 375. I have since found beau- 

 tiful, though minute, crystals of sulphur, accompanied by 

 carbonate of lead, in cavities in galena, raised from a vein at 

 Hartington, also in this neighbourhood. — W. C. Trevelyan. 

 Wallington, Newcastle on Tyne, Sept. 22. 1832. 



Several Skeletons of Elks have been found in the Neighbour- 



