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friendly pfsniiis with an inverted torch, and holdinpf a wreath in his hand, or as 

 a sleeping child, winged, with an inverted torch resting on his wreath. According 

 to an idea originating in the East, Death was ascribed to Jupiter, if it was occa- 

 sioned by lightning ; to the water nymphs, if the individual was drowned ; to 

 Aurora, if death happened in the morning ; to Selene, if at night ; &c. These 

 representations were more adapted to relieve the minds of surviving friends than 

 the pictures of horror drawn by subsequent poets and artists. The later Roman 

 poets represented Death under horrible forms — gnashing his teeth, and marking 

 his victims with nails, &c. The disgusting representations of Death, common 

 among Christians, originated in the 14th century. From that period to the 

 17th century Death is often represented as a skeleton, sometimes with a scythe 

 in his right hand, and sometimes with a dagger. This was the style in which 

 Death was represented when Partricio Church was built. This mural figure con- 

 firms the opinion that I formed before as to the state of the present Church of 

 Partricio. Similar representations are to be seen in other churches of the same 

 period. In recent times, again. Death is represented as a beautiful youth. It is 

 thus represented in the monument by Oanova, which George IV. erected in honour 

 of the Stuarts in St. Peter's at Rome. 



Sir Geo. H. Cornewall, in thanking Mr. Davies for his paper, thought that 

 the figure of the skeleton vi^as often represented on church walls. At Moccas 

 church there was one, done in black outlines, beneath the whitewash, but the 

 architect, Mr. Scott, Sir Gilbert Scott's son, did not think it worth preserving. 

 There were also skeletons at St. Margaret's, and some other churches in the dis- 

 trict. He thought also that there were many remains of rood lofts left in the 

 churches of this district, such as are shown by the transverse oak beams and the 

 stone steps in the wall now leading up to nothing. 



It was also stated that the drawing of a skeleton, and some other fresco paint- 

 ings had recently been discovered beneath the whitewash in the parish church of 

 Clodock. 



The time had now arrived to continue the walk. The gravestones in the little 

 churchyard did not show the interest they might have done, for the sandstone of 

 the district is evidently very perishable, and only a single stone was observed to 

 bear the date of the last century. " Forward " was heard, and the visitors filed 

 down the church path to the Tabernacle footbridge over this tempting river, and 

 the ascent of Twyn-y-Gaer, or the hill of the fortress or encampment, was com- 

 menced. 



In the meadow at the foot of the Ffwddog, on Herefordshire soil, the globe 

 flower Trollius europceus, grows freely, but it was only as yet beginning to throw 

 up its flower stems. The paths were lined with the elegant little flower, Oxalis 

 acetoscUa, Wood sorrel, or Cuckoo bread. Its beautiful white drooping flowers, 

 with the petals so delicately pencilled with faint lilac streaks, and its trefoil leaves 

 so often red imderneath themselves, and reflected <m the red stems, are very grace- 

 ful and interesting. The juice of this plant is gratefully acid. It contains the 



