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Chalk Heaps as Guides to Aoutes ober Salis 
bury Alain. 
IN passing over the vast downs of Salisbury Plain from 
=<§\%) Lavington to Chittern, the traveller may notice a long line 
of heaps of chalk, placed at regular intervals and reaching the 
whole of the distance between these places. On enquiry as to the 
origin of this line, I was much entertained with the following 
story :—Some years ago a gentleman residing at Chittern paid his 
addresses to a very fascinating young lady at Lavington, whose 
attractions were frequently the cause of his having to cross the 
downs at a very late hour. On one of these occasions being un- 
usually late, he found that though “ the course of true love”’ was 
in his case tolerably smooth, it was by no means straight; for after 
wandering about during the whole of a most miserable night, he 
found himself in the morning, only a mile or two from the place 
whence he had set out on the previous evening. To prevent the 
recurrence of a similar misfortune—he had a quantity of chalk 
placed at such distances, as that even in the darkest night it would 
be easy to trace his way across this grassy Hellespont in safety. 
The heaps are now somewhat overgrown with moss and grass, but 
for years to come the traveller will have reason to thank Mr. 
or rather the attractions of his lady, for a most useful clue to the 
road from Lavington to Chittern. 

WC. 
Aoman Coins found at Gastertow. 
BF coin years ago an urn of rude pottery containing Roman 
coins, was dug up at Easterton, near Devizes. Many of ~ 
them have been dispersed in private collections, but some have 
lately been placed at our disposal for examination. Of these the 
Rev. D. M. Clerk has kindly furnished the following particulars. 
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