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This concluded the visit to Malmesbury, which will not soon be 

 forgotten by the archa3olog'ists. A drive by direct road to Chippen- 

 ham, and thence the special train brought them back to Devizes. 



At the evening meeting Mr. Thomas Morgan, P.S.A., read a 

 very learned paper on the " Gewissens in Wiltshire," or *' Western- 

 ers.'" He had traced at the last Congress the East Angles in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk, now he wished to speak of the Westernera. 

 The term seemed to have been used in opposition to the "Easter- 

 lings," just as on the Continent the Eastern Goths were opposed to 

 the Visigoths, or Western Goths. At the conclusion of his paper the 

 subject was discussed by Mr. Kerslake and Mr. Swa"xne. Then 

 Dr. Phene, F.S.A., F.G.S., read a most important paper on " Ex- 

 isting Analogues to Stonehenge and Abury,'^ asserting that he had 

 discovered in the Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean, examples 

 of the moi'tise and tenon system of Stonehenge in structures which 

 assume '' the precise condition of the more vast portion of Stone- 

 henge,^' and he claimed a Roman origin for these structures, 

 suggesting that the Romans thus honoured the existing temples of 

 the nations they conquered, by augmenting them after this fashion. 

 The subject was discussed by Lord Nelson, Mr. Cunnington, Mr. 

 Myers, and Mr. Picton, but it is hoped Dr. Phene's paper will 

 soon be printed for the careful consideration of archaeologists. A 

 hearty vote of thanks from the President to the authors of the two 

 very interesting papers they had heard concluded the evening 

 meeting. 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 20th. 



This was a very long day's excursion, comprising a drive of 

 forty miles through the valley of the Avon to Amesbury and 

 Stonehenge and back to Devizes over Salisbury Plain. The first 

 halting-place was at Enford, where The Vicar (Rev. C. F. Cooke) 

 met the party at the Church and pointed out some of its most 

 interesting features. The building was altered to its present con- 

 dition after the crushing of the nave by the fall of the spire in 1817. 

 It has a range of blank arcading of slender lancets, on the north side 

 of the chancel, and opening out of this a low octagonal chamber now 

 used as a vestry, and having in the angles four ambries, in which hooks 



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