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in his barrow." I never heard that he found anything like what we call a 

 coffin, though he might or might not have found a kist-vcen, and might have 

 called a kist-vcen a stone coffin. There is not, I believe, any reason to believe 

 that any of the Ridgeway barrows are the graves of a later tribe than the 

 Ancient Britons or Belgae. 



I am, etc., 

 August 2l6t., 1852. WILLIAM BARNES." 



In addition to the above I beg to add that of another friend, James Frond, 

 Esq., also of Dorchester, in whose house Mr. Maclean lodged for some time. 

 Mr. Frond says — *'It is with pleasure I bear testimony to the following: — Mr. 

 Maclean, who has been dead now some years, was a man of great natural 

 talent, persevering industry, a good botanist, and as a dentist stood high with 

 the profession and the public generally. The devotion with which he pursued 

 his profession induced him, on every possible occasion, to be an eye-witness 

 at the opening of any of the barrows in the vicinity of Dorchester; hoping 

 thereby to procure some specimens of human teeth^ which might confirm his 

 previously formed opinion that the Creator intended that those important parts 

 of the human frame should survive every other, and that unless interfered 

 with, either by taking deleterious medicines, or the use of acids, as articles of 

 diet, or tooth-powder, teeth may wear, but would never decay. It was, then, as 

 a useful member of his profession, that he tvas led to witness the opening of 

 barrows, and it was the accidental finding something resembling seeds that 

 excited his botanical propensities, and induced him to preserve, for future 

 investigation, the mass in which the seeds were imbedded. I was not present 

 at the opening of the barrow, but have the most distinct recollection of Mr, 

 Maclean bringing home and showing me the teeth and a mass of something 

 containing what he thought to be seeds of fruit, eaten by the person shortly 

 before death. He then told me that he should either send or take to London 

 the mass he had found, and leave it with some parties who, in all probability, 

 would be able ultimately to determine the character of its contents, and this 

 I know he did, but from that time to the present I had lost sight of the 

 subject altogether; for Mr. M., who had been with me three or four years, 

 soon after left my house for a more central part of the town. 



Dorchester, August 28th., 1851. JAMES FROND. 



To what I have already advanced on this interesting but disputed subject, 

 I will make a few quotations from a letter published in the ^^Gardeners' Chronicle," 

 from Dr. Smith, M. D., Weymouth, whose letter is doubly interesting, he 

 having been an intimate friend of Mr. Maclean, and in possession, I believe, 

 of Mr. M's. papers, through Mrs. Maclean. Dr. Smith says — "I had the 

 pleasure of knowing Mr. Maclean intimately, for a period of four years before 

 his death, I attended him professionally during that period, and I am not 

 saying too much for departed worth, when I express my firm belief that he 



