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resumed their journey, stopping at Amesbury to visit the Church 
and a very interesting temporary Museum, which had been formed 
by the united exertions of Messrs. Kemm, Edwards, and Zillwood, 
and then proceeded to Vespasian’s Camp, where, in a spacious tent, 
an excellent lunch awaited them. 
At the conclusion of the repast, Sir Jonn Luszock, who presided, 
said he thought they would all wish that he should be authorised 
in their name to ask their secretaries to return their thanks, 
one and all, to Sir Edmund Antrobus, who had done so much to 
eontribute to their pleasure that day. Thanks to him, they had the 
opportunity of seeing some of the most beautiful scenes in the 
county. He desired also to express their thanks for the use of the 
room in which the temporary museum had been placed ; also to Mr. 
Edwards, Mr. Kemm, and Mr. Zillwood, who had contributed not a 
little to the success of the day’s proceedings. 
Subsequently an address was delivered at one of the most prominent 
parts of the camp, by Mr. Parxur, who described it as the most 
perfect Roman camp that he had ever seen. It was a mile-and-a- 
half round, but they could hardly see anything of it. 
Mr. Parker spoke at considerable length, and there was some 
discussion. 
The company then proceeded to Stonehenge, at which already a 
very large number of persons were collected, awaiting the arrival of 
the archeologists; so that the whole area of Stonehenge scarcely 
sufficed to contain them all. And here first Mr. Parxsr, ascending 
the so-called “ altar-stone,” said he had been requested to say a few 
words about those relics of antiquity: he could hardly call them 
architectural, but they were the first few steps towards it. He saw 
no reason why the stone circles he saw around him should not be 
Druidical. Some of the stones were cut, and some were natural 
Sarsen, secured by tenons and mortices, which indicated some_skill 
in the working of stone. All that led him to suppose that they 
could hardly belong to a period before the Britons. They had no 
reason to suppose that the Britons knew anything about the cutting 
of stones before the arrival of the Romans. He did not say that 
those stones were post-Roman, but it was possible that the Romans 
