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Those listless limbs, in speed and force, 

 Which rivalled once the fleetest horse, 

 Light bounding o'er the plain," 



Then again the Archdruid addresses the multitude, he orders a 

 cup of dew to be put beside the corpse, telling the people that it 

 will be 2000 years before the cup will be found empty, 



" When 'tis decreed, I hail the sign, 

 The grave its treasure must resign. 

 To a kind chief who will revere, 

 A chieftain's relics buried here. 

 One who with us delights to ken 

 The ancient works of Celtic men." 



The " kind chief" is of course Sir Richard Hoare, and the critic 

 will remember that a similar thought is to be found in one of 

 Bowles' published poems. 



Mr, Skinner published his account of the Wansdyke in, as I 

 suspect, though I have not seen it, a separate pamphlet, and he 

 contributed to the Archseologia his account of the new discoveries 

 made on the Roman Wall since General Roy's book appeared, 



I have been led to take tlie more interest in Mr. Skinner's 

 character, because he was, from the time of their first introduction 

 by Mr. Warner in 1817, to nearly the time of Mr. Skinner's death, 

 a sympathetic friend and fellow antiquary of Mr, Joseph Hunter. 

 Of a visit made to Camerton in 1820, I find an account in Mr. 

 Hunter's diary. " I spent a very pleasant day with Mr. Skinner 

 yesterday, I found him living with his son and daughter at the 

 rectoiy house which he has embellished with the hand of true 

 taste, and not less so the five acres of ground which adjoin it. 

 We walked to see a beautiful piece of the Fossway, about two 

 miles from his house. His theories are too bold for any more 

 cautious temper. In the embellishment of his house and grounds 

 he seems to have been eminently successful. There is not the 

 fritter and glitter of the Leasowes, there is more of a just economy 

 combined with the elegance, and the inscriptions which abound 

 are in purer taste. In the porch he has the Votum Horatii, and I 

 could not but observe one thing which none but a very tasteful 

 antiquary would have thought of. Barker of Bath had painted a 



