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after all that, feebly, blindly and unfriended, toiling through the 
miry ways of poverty and care, wandering, as Carlyle says, in 
‘« the labyrinth night,” I had stumbled unawares upon a river of 
pure water, of which whoso drinks need never thirst again. Or 
was this Matthew Arnold only another dreamer as crazy as 
myself? At any rate I realised the fact that I was not the only 
fool in the forest, but in very good company, and that these 
dreams of mine were not, as Tennyson says, ‘‘ confusions of a 
wasted youth,” but glimpses of a new spiritual dawn that was 
rising upon the world. 
EXCURSIONS, 1891. 
An Excursion to Rylstone, Grassington, Upper Wharfedale, 
and Bolton Abbey was enjoyed on June 6th, when 22 members 
and friends visited these charming localities. 
An Excursion to Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick, Leamington, 
Kenilworth, and Coventry, took place on July 28th, 29th, and 
30th, and was attended by 14 members and friends. 
EXCURSIONS, 1892. 
Visit of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 
to Burnley, May 21st, 1892. 
This visit was not arranged under the auspices of the Club, 
but remembering the honourable position of the Society and the 
fact that our President (Mr. W. A. Waddington) had been 
invited to act as leader, it is fitting that mention should be made 
in the Club Transactions of so interesting an event. 
Over 50 members of the Society (with their Secretary, 
Mr. G. C. Yates,) journeyed to Burnley. They were received at 
Rosegrove Station and conducted to Gawthorpe Hall, afterwards 
driving to Towneley. In the chapel a relic rarely shewn to 
visitors was exhibited. It was the skull of Francis Towneley, 
who was executed in 1746 for the part he had taken in the 
Jacobite Rebellion. The Burnley Parish Church was in- 
spected, and the party drove by the ancient cross and stocks. 
Tea was served at the Empress Hotel, and at the meeting 
Mr. Leatherbrough presided. 
Mr. W. A. Waddington vindicated the claims of Burnley to 
the visit of such a Society. He remarked that a very high 
antiquity was claimed—indeed, it was certain that in the 
neighbourhood of Worsthorne there were people living 500 years 
before Christ. They conducted systematic forms of burial, as 
the urns recently discovered went to prove. Castor Cliff at 
Colne--the Twist Castle so called—and a number of other 
