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the others under the guidance of their host for Eadstock. Having 

 returned their thanks to their host for a very pleasant day they 

 parted with him near Hallatrow, and after various adventures 

 rather trying to some of the party they ended a very agreeable 

 day by a most unpleasant detention of three-quarters of an hour 

 at the Radstock Station waiting for the train to Bath, passing 

 their time in idle threats and equally idle wishes that they had 

 trusted to their own locomotive powers rather than to those of the 

 Somerset and Dorset Railway Company. 



WALKS. 



The first walk after the anniversary meeting was to Wick 

 Rocks on 30th March, the weather being too wet for those fixed 

 for the 2nd and 9th of that month. From AVarmley, which was 

 reached by train from Bath, the members walked to the Rocks, 

 examinino- on the way the sections of Millstone Grit in the ravine 

 and the earthworks near Rock House. A fine female viper was 

 seen sunning herself on the bank near the east end of the Rocks, 

 but unfortunately glided away into the dry leaves of the bank 

 before Dr. Bird, who was one of the party, could catch and bottle 

 her for scientific investigation. On their return to Bath the 

 members looked in at Battle Fields, Avhere its hospitable owner 

 showed them over his house and walked with them through his 

 picturesque grounds to the twin tumuli, which appear to have 

 been formerly opened, passing on the way a fine spring of water 

 issuing from the top of the Fuller's Earth — here a yellow clay. 

 After admiring the fine wych elm said to be 800 years old, the 

 party returned home across the Down. The pedometre gave 

 eleven miles as the distance walked. 



Another walk was taken on 6th April to Charmy Down. 

 Ascending the S.W. end opposite Sulisbury Hill some earth- 

 works near the plantation on the top of the hill were pointed out, 

 and a solitary erect stone was supposed by an enthusiastic 



