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scription "Johannes de Lynns;" and on the other " Jacet Henricus 

 de Lancaut . . . Abbas de Veto," can be plainly read. The 

 Cloisters themselves have disappeared, but the well proportioned 

 windows of the N. aisle, dwarfed purposely for the admission of 

 the lean-too roof beneath, indicate the line where these originally 

 ran. Situation and architectural details both combine to make 

 these ruins some of the most picturesque in England. Passing out 

 again beneath the beautifully proportioned west window with its 

 nearly perfect Decorated tracery, a last look was given at the 

 fine west front with the remains of its Galilee, and then the modern 

 procession of lay brethren wound their way reluctantly back to 

 those less interesting but most useful conveyances, the coach and 

 break, which took them on to the station at Tintern Parva, a 

 mile distant, whence the train was taken for Chepstow. The 

 lovely peeps of rock, wood and river, as the train winds its way 

 to Chepstow, are unsurpassed even by the hitherto celebrated 

 drive by the coach road. The beauty of the scenery was much 

 enhanced, too, by the freshness which the recent rains had eflfected 

 on the foliage after the long drought of the past June, and every- 

 thing conspired to render this a most pleasant and successful 

 archaeological excursion. 



Earn Hill and Montacute, Tuesday September IJ/th, 1886. — Those 

 who were present at a former excursion to Montacute on 

 10th October, 1865, may recollect that owing to the bad weather 

 and other contretemps the day did not leave pleasant memories 

 in its Avake. Neither the house nor the quarries were seen to 

 advantage. Such remarks, however, could not be recorded of 

 this the fourth and last excursion of the season. A glorious 

 summer's day and courteous civility combined to make this 

 certainly one of the pleasantest and most instructive of the 

 series. Owing to the length of the programme an early start for 

 Yeovil by G.W.R. was necessary, and at 10.45 twenty members 

 and their friends, comfortably packed away in two breaks supplied 

 by the landlord of the " Three Choughs," left the Pen Mill 



