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tower was obtained. The somewhat unintelligent guardian of the 
key remained at the hase of the brick triangular-shape erection 
beneath the protection of the statue of Alfred the Great, whilst 
the members ascended the 221 steps leading to the top by the 
most southern of the three towers forming the angles of the 
triangle. The view from this great height was very grand (the 
Greensand hill of Kingsettle, on which the first proprietor, Mr. 
Henry Hoare, built the tower, being 800 ft. above sea level alone) 
embracing a very wide extent of country. An iron railing now 
much eaten away by exposure to many a storm, surrounds a stone 
platform, and looks as if a good push would send it down 150 ft. 
to the ground beneath. The clearness of the atmosphere charac- 
teristic of the present stormy weather enabled the eye to range 
far away to the distant hills of Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, the 
Mendip hills looking like an undulation, and Glastonbury Tor 
like a mere pawn on the chess board. By the aid of some useful 
maps, which one of the members, a promising young aeronaut, 
had with him, Bradley Knoll, White Sheet Castle, Mere and 
other church towers were distinguished, and the rich woodland of 
Stourton lay mapped out beneath. After a rapid descent and 
some ineffectual attempts to gain information from the guardian 
of the tower, the members descended the sloping combe to the 
pleasure grounds, passing the “ Pump of St. Peter,” an hexagonal 
erection formerly in Bristol but now covering the six sources of 
the Stour. Traces of the late gales were just visible in a beech tree 
down here, and:a branch or two there, but generally this special 
locality seemed highly favoured, and the noble trees, oak, beech, 
cedars, hemlock, spruce and pines, which rise up in all their forest 
grandeur around the artificial sheet of water, seemed uninjured. 
The following motto over a summer house, ‘‘ Procul O Procul, este 
Profani” warned off the sacrilegious, foot of ‘the trespasser and 
caused a hasty exit on to, tue village green. The Church being 
accessible, the tombs of the Stourtons (the figures as usual muti- 
lated), were visited and some Latin imscriptions copied. The 
