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embroidered frontal for an altar, with the Assumption of the 

 Virgin, of fourteenth century work ; and a cope of red velvet, 

 richly embroidered with stars and crowns, with orfrois of figures 

 of saints, surmounted by canopies, dating from the fifteenth 

 century. 



From Campden the party proceeded to Norton, known as 

 "Burnt Norton," where Lord Harrowbt has a small country 

 house, on a pleasant slope overlooking the vale of Evesham, and 

 smothered in woods, amidst which are the shattered remains of 

 an old " pleasaunce," all that now remains of a large mansion 

 which, as tradition asserts, was burnt down by its possessor, a 

 mad knight of the name of Keyte, who, Sardanapalus-Uke, 

 consumed himself together with his abode. 



Prom this point the party diverged to the Eailway, near 

 Mickleton tunnel, where they hunted the spoil-banks for fossils, 

 not altogether without success, a tolerably perfect example 

 having been obtained of a Crustacean (? Eryon,) with some 

 detached portions of claws, together with Cardium truncatum, 

 Hemicardium cardioides, Area elegans, Gervillia Icevis, Grenatula 

 ventricosa, Modiola scalprum, Ammonites capricornis, Belemnites, 

 Fucoids, &c. 



Dinner was served at Mickleton Manor, to which about forty 

 sat down. 



After dinner, Mr. Beavendek read his paper on '^'The 

 Watershed of the Thames," which had been postponed from 

 the previous meeting. Mr. Bravendee's paper went to show 

 that the surface-drainage of the watershed of the Thames, 

 embracing an area of 270 square miles, would suffice, if guarded 

 from loss by percolation through porous strata, over which a 

 considerable portion of its area lies, to supply the City of 

 London with water at the rate of thirty gallons per day to each 

 individual, without diminishing to any appreciable extent the 

 present water supply in the river. He shewed the enormous 

 loss through percolation in the river Churn alone, by the fact 

 that, whereas the volume of water between the Spring-head 

 and Colesborne — a distance of less than three miles — had risen 

 to 375 cubic feet a minute, running over a Clay bed, at 



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