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it is true, three out of the four places visited were outside the 
boundaries of our county, but were none the less interesting on 
that account—the main feature of the day’s excursion being that, 
contrary to our usual custom, the Members had ample time to see 
each place visited we//—a condition which did not obtain on the 
next day’s excursion. The weather was very good on the whole 
for the purpose in hand, a slight mizzly rain which fell at Farleigh 
for a while was not enough to do any harm, and the remainder of 
the day was dry and free from heat and dust. 
At the Conversazione at the Town Hall, in the evening, 
only some thirty-one persons were present, but what was lacking 
in numbers was made up for by the interest taken in the papers 
read. Dr. John Beddoe, F.R.S., led off with an address on 
“The Ethnology of Wilts,” a subject which has hardly been 
touched hitherto by the Society, and on which no one.could speak 
with so much authority as himself. Several Members joined in 
the discussion which followed the address—the BisHor or Ciirron 
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asking whether any explanation could be given of the great number 
of serfs in Gloucestershire mentioned in Domesday, whilst Mr: 
W. H. Bet reminded the Doctor of the presence of Paleolithic 
man in the river drift of Salisbury, Mr. Connorne and Mr. C. 
Smuvprson asked questions as to the “ Wiltshire Eye” spoken of by 
Dr. Beddoe in one of his works as characteristic of Wiltshire 
recruits in the army, and the Rev. E. H. Gopparp asked whether 
_ Dr. Beddoe would assign any importance as a race characteristic 
to the great difference in intonation and accent which undoubtedly 
exists between North and South Wilts, and to the way in which 
the southern accent is found more especially developed in certain 
districts. Dr. Beppor thought this a line of investigation that 
might be followed with profit, and the results of which would 
probably point to differences of race. He had not, however, 
himself paid any attention to it. . 
The Rev. A. D. Hill, Vicar of Downton, then read a paper 
on discoveries quite recently made at Breamore Church, just 
over the Hampshire border, illustrated by drawings and rubbings 
of a curious inscription—from which it appears that the walls and 
