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personal inspection might be made by whomsvever the subject may 
be taken up at some future time. The writer would also add, that 
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floor, the jaw was singularly well preserved, of an ivory whiteness 
and density, and even retained distinct traces of the natural oil or 
medulla. Near the skull was a curious implement of black flint— 
a sort of circular knife with a short projecting handle, the edges 
elaborately chipped. (Fig. 8.) The skeleton was perhaps that of a 
chief, for whose burial the chamber and tumulus were erected, and 
in honour of whom certain slaves and dependants were immolated. 
J. T. 

The Horest Crees of Wiltshire. 
Br W. B., RB. D. 




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1° a writer of the following pages begs at the outset to state, 
¥) 4) that, at the solicitation of two friends who are much 
nterested in this Magazine, and with fear and trembling, he is 


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making the attempt to give some slight account of the Forest Trees 
of Wiltshire. He begs also to state, that his knowledge of the 
county is limited, being confined to a comparatively small portion 
. of the districts in it :—that he is totally unacquainted with botany, 
and that what little he knows of trees is derived mainly from a 
practical, not at all from a scientific acquaintance with them, and 
from having read Evelyn’s “Sylva,” when a boy. Under these 
circumstances he hopes every allowance will be made for those 
many short-comings and imperfections which cannot fail to be 
manifest throughout. He hopes, too, that those very imperfections 
will induce some well-qualified person to take up the subject in 
order that justice may be done it. To that end he would suggest 
that those readers of the Magazine who have on their own estates, 
or who live in the neighbourhood of trees remarkable for historical 
associations, age, size, or any note-worthy quality, should commu- 
nicate with the Secretary of the Society about them, so that a 
