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to the recovery of his lost estate through the mystical washing 
of Holy Baptism. 
The Chancel is Fourteenth Century work, and there are 
some beautiful paintings of the Reredos lately executed in 
Munich. They are copies of paintings in Florence, by Fra. 
Angelica, and are framed in the remains of carved work taken 
from a Jacobean pew. 
A brief historical description of the Church is given ina 
small pamphlet, written by the Vicar, of which I have largely 
availed. 
Before inspecting the wonderful mound, camp, and large 
stones, a paper upon them by the Rev. W. Bazeley—who was 
unable to be present—was read by. the President. 
This paper Mr Bazeley has since amplified in the one he 
read at our last evening meeting. 
A short walk brought the party to Silbury Hill, the largest 
_ artificial mound in Europe, more than equalling in size the 
second Egyptian pyramid. 
When the Club visited Silbury in 1849 Mr Hugh Strickland 
said he had been on the top of the largest artificial mound 
known—the tomb of Halyattes, in Asia Minor, described by 
_ Herodotus—and Silbury reminded him very much of it. 
The President gave a short account of the Geology of the 
district, with special reference to the Sarsen, Saracen, or 
_ Heathen stones. It had been suggested to him that the 
_ etymology of the word Sarsen is probably ses, plural sesan, 
Anglo-Saxon for a rock. 
For a long time there was a good deal of speculation as to 
_ where such large blocks could have come from, and also by 
_ what agency they were brought. Even Stukeley’s remarks 
shew how primitive scientific knowledge was in his day. He 
_ says “that this whole country hereabouts is a solid body of 
chalk, covered with a most delicate turf. As this chalky 
_ matter hardened at creation, it spew’d out the most solid body 
of the stones, of greater specific gravity than itself; and 
assisted by centrifugal power, owing to the. rotation of the 
globe upon its axis, threw them upon the surface, where they 
