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following August tlie Cambrian Archaologists, assembled at the Knighton 

 Congress, took up the ball, which we had already thrown down, and contri- 

 buted somewhat — perhaps it is not for me to say how much — towards 

 gathering up the threads of the campaign, and deciding, if not where 

 Caractacus's last battle n-<ts fought, at least where it teas not fought. During 

 the week at Knighton I had an opportunity of inspecting most of the Kadnor- 

 shire strongholds, whi h Icjcal patriotism associate with the Silurian hero; 

 but, whilst I think thei-e is every probability that Wapleii and Croft Ambreii 

 were both entrenched camps held and lost by the retreating Caractacus, I 

 cannot suppress a conviction — to which I gave expression at the end of last 

 August in a review article — that his last battle was fought not near the I-ugg 

 nor near the Teme, but across the border between the Silures and C)rdovices, 

 in North Wales, and in the neighbourhood of the Severn. An entrenched 

 camp on an eminence, washed at the base by the Dee, which at times over- 

 flows its banks and realises Tacitus's description — a camp just opposite Corwen 

 in North Wales — though that is too far away for the scene of action — fulfils 

 to my fancy more requuements of the annalist's description than 

 any camp in Herefordshire or Eadnorshire. The Wapley meeting 

 was numerously attended ; and the day of it fine. Your Presidents 

 fear lest he should be suspected of tempting the Club into "fresh 

 fields and pastures new," and seducing them from geology and natural 

 bistory into archa;ology was dissipated, when, after lunch, at Moor Court, a 

 paper by Mr. James Henry Davies, on " The Botany of the District," was 

 read by Dr. Bull, and proved the signal for a discussion of kindred topics, in 

 which Mr. Jones Thomas, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Middleton (an accomplished 

 naturalist, who, I regret to say, has made too brief a sojourn in our county), 

 as well as others, took a part. Mr. J. H. Davies's jiaper, brief and 

 fragmentary then, owing to the pressure of reading for natural science 

 honours, has, since his degree, been so enlarged and supplemented, as to 

 evince, I hope, not only his familiarity, but his sj-mpathy, with one of the 

 most delightful pursuits of our Club. I cannot quit the remembrance of 

 the Club's visit to Moor Court without an e.xpression of personal satisfaction 

 that so goodly a number of members were there to see and examine the wych 

 elm, the silver fir, and the elm avenue, which, in the transactions of 1869, the 

 Woolhope Commissioner has commemorated in his " Notes on Hertfordshire 

 Trees." Our second field meeting, on Friday, June 1.3, was for May Hill and 

 Ross. Unkindly and lowering weather kept away many Woolhopians from 

 the enjoyment of a good out-look, and a rare geological treat. The reward 

 of braving weather and ascending the hiU is an unrivalled panoramic view of 

 the Vales of Gloucester, Tewkesbmy, Berkeley, of the Hills of Monmouth- 

 shire and South Wales, of the Bristol Channel, the Severn and the Wye, as 

 well as a survey of ground most interesting to the geologist, as representing 

 the group of beds which iliu-chi.son designated the "Upper Llandovery 

 Eocks." A sufiBcient number of members faced the weather, which was after 



