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members speedily back to Cadoxton, when they mounted the 

 breaks and had even a more disagreeable ride than the morning's 

 one back to Cardiff, leaving by the 6.25 train for Bath. 



JDeerhurst, July 19th. A very agreeable and interesting 

 archaeological excursion was taken to Deerhurst and Tewkesbury. 

 Notftwithstanding the season, when proverbially speaking, " there 

 is no one left in Bath," a goodly array of members mustered, no 

 less than 21, a number exceeding the average on these occasions. 

 Starting at 8.45 from the Midland Station, the train was due in 

 Gloucester at ten, and arrangements had been m<ade to proceed 

 from thence on the Severn by steamboat, advertised to leave at 

 10 o'clock. The courteous captain had promised to wait if the 

 party was not '"very late," but as the distance from the railway 

 station to the starting place on the river was at least a mile there 

 was no little anxiety, lest, on arriving at the bridge, the boat 

 should be seen steaming away in the distance. Happily the 

 captain's patience was not exhausted by twenty minutes' waiting ; 

 the party was soon on board, and not a moment lost in starting. 

 The prospect of a long day's work suggested the propriety of 

 husbanding time. A telegram was therefore forwarded to secure 

 a break at Deerhurst to take the Club to Tewkesbury after seeing 

 the churches of Deerhurst. The river was an agreeable change 

 after the railway, and with a bracing wind from the north, the 

 members congratulated themselves on having selected this route. 

 The appearance of black angry clouds gave the pessimists an 

 opportunity of prophesying wet jackets before returning to Bath ; 

 but the more sanguine ones protested, and, as often is the case, 

 were right. Before reaching the landing place at Deerhurst a 

 remarkable geological section opposite the Wainlode cHif was seen, 

 and permission to wait a few minutes for a closer inspection might 

 have been obtained if any one of the party had been equal to the 

 occasion and able to enlighten his fellows, but unfortunately the 

 secretary, the Eev. H. H. Winwood, always at home in 

 this department of science, was far away in the "land of cakes." 



