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iron ore, but no one seems to have thought of the edifices under which the miners 
worked. The neighbours, however, were allowed to remove portions of the 
masonry which appeared above ground, and to use them for building walls. In 
the early part of the present century the estate had come into the possession of 
his (Mr. Bathurst’s) family ; and his father had taken the pains to explore the 
ruins, Mr. Bathurst showed a series of maps and plans which had been prepared, 
and remarked that the measurements were all carefully made. As soon as a bit 
of wall was cleared of earth, its position and dimensions were ascertained and set 
down on the plan. The immediate cause of this survey and excavation was the 
revealing of a bit of tesselated pavement in consequence of the fall of a wall. It 
was remarkable that in all their excavations they had found no trace of a burial 
place, Their reasons for supposing that the building marked “‘C” on the plan 
was a temple, were, that they found there the votive tablets which the company 
had seen, and the inscription on the tesselated pavement. (He then described 
them minutely, giving at length his reasons for reading the contractions as he 
did). He remarked too, that a figure of a human leg had been found, which was 
not part of any statue, and which seemed to have been hung up in the temple as 
an offering from some person who supposed that his diseased leg had been cured by 
the interposition of the god worshipped there. It was customary to hang up 
models of limbs and other parts of the body in the temples of A’sculapius, and 
this fact went to strengthen the arguments that that god was identical with the 
Nodon of the votive tablets. ; 
The Prestprnt remarked that this practice was still kept up at St. 
Winfred’s well in Flintshire. ‘ 
Mr. Baruurst went on to say that there was a great difficulty attendant 
upon this interpretation. There was no such god as Nodon found in the Roman 
mythology ; the nearest name was that of Nodatus or Nodutus, the god who pre- 
sided over the swellings or knots in the corn, but he was altogether too insignificant 
to have a temple erected to him. Sir W. Drummond had thought that the name 
Nodon might be derived from the Greek Nodunos, assuager of pain, a title which 
have been given to A®sculapius, although it is not stated that he was ever so 
called. The frequent recurrence of the figures of dogs, as well as the two serpents, 
was thought by Dr. Me.Caul, of Torronto, to make the proof conclusive, but he, 
(Mr. Bathurst) knew of no reason for supposing that there was any connection 
between Aisculapius and the dog, except that Pausanias, an ancient Greek writer, 
states that in the temple at Epidaurus there was a figure of a dog sitting beside 
the deity. Dogs were not sacrificed to the healing gods, but cocks and goats were. 
Only one figure of a cock had been found, and that seems to have been made for 
some use, as it bears upon its back a socket. Mr. Bathurst went on to describe 
the collyrium stamps mentioned above, remarking that Mr. Wright in his work, 
“The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon,” had mentioned several, although not 
those found here. The collyrium mentioned in these stamps was said to be made 
in one instance from stacte, or myrrh; in the second from an oil extracted from 
