G4 TRACKS IN TEME. 



two called those of the mare, three of the colt, one rather 

 doubtful track, one patten-ring impression" — " all the said 

 tracks have protuberances corresponding with the frogs of the 

 animals' feet, very finely developed." — " Some distance further 

 down the brook we found another stone, containing two tracks 

 of the mare blended together, one of the colt," &c. — " Upon 

 one not very large stone we found a rather worn impression of 

 the mare's tracks," (p. 16.) — " At Mr. Downes', of the Farm," 

 they saw " a stone containing one patten-ring impression, one 

 track of the mare, and two of the colt," (p, 17.) " The colt's 

 track, marked O, is a most excellent impression; the frog of 

 this track is level with the surface of the stone, at the hinder 

 part of it," (p. 19.) "I must add here, that so distinct are these 

 tracks, even now, that I should as soon be led to believe that 

 a clear representation of the ' human face divine' would be 

 produced on various stones by the attrition of the stream, as 

 that such attrition produced these tracks," (p. 25.) " Here 

 then I take it we have the tracks of antediluvian horses and 

 colts, and of patten-ring impressions. And if so, they clearly 

 prove that this country was not only inhabited, but that it was 

 in a state of considerable civilisation," &c. (p. 29.) 



The reader will perhaps be struck with the alteration of 

 phraseology as the writer warms in his subjects through the 

 pages above quoted; first, we have " tracks called those of the 

 mare;" then we have it fairly stated, "one track of the mare;" 

 lastly, we have the inference clearly : " Here then, I take it, 

 we have the tracks," &c., implying that a doubt no longer 

 exists on the subject. We omitted to say that the prints of 

 the mare's feet formerly exhibited traces of shoes with cockers 

 to them, and nails ; this, however, does not come as a positive 

 fact vouched for by the author, and therefore he need not have 

 raised a theory touching blacksmiths thereon, proving, as he 

 says, " the use of iron in those remote ages, and the then 

 existence of the blacksmith," (p. 29.) The patten-ring is 

 quite as satisfactory a proof of the existence both of iron and 

 smith. 



We have it then fairly admitted and insisted on, in the 

 Essay before us, that tracks of an animal wearing pattens, and 

 of two horses of very different sizes, one of them supposed to 

 be shod, exist at this day, on the surface of the old red sand- 

 stone in Teme, Sapey, Whelpley, and other streams in the 



