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consisted of very graceful patterns, surrounding figures of the 

 four seasons— Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — with 

 a couple represented in the various phases of the dance most 

 gracefully and artistically delineated. This room contained 

 the various objects which had been found during the excava- 

 tions, consisting amongst other things of a pair of iron shears, 

 various articles in iron, horns of the red deer of very large 

 proportion, &c., &c. The liearty thanks of the Members 

 having been returned to Lord Eldon for his courteous hos- 

 pitality, Mr. Lysons then conducted them through the rooms 

 and baths ; one room with an apsidal termination was of 

 peculiar interest. A cistern of octagonal shape, containing 

 water, is situated in the centre, in the right hand corner was 

 found an altar, and over it three niches ; could this then 

 be an ancient Baptistry ? The missing link would indeed be 

 found. But could it not also be the tank with its perennial 

 spring whence flowed the waters which sujjplied the baths 

 below ? It might be. The place for drying corn, the nether 

 millstone, and the bakery were all pointed out. A tumulus 

 with a stone cist lately opened and the remains of two Temples 

 were visited, and a rapid march back from this most in- 

 teresting place was made to the Inn at Foss Bridge. Here 

 antiquary, geologist, and botanist met together for dinner and 

 papers afterwards, under the presidency of Sir W. Guise, 

 Bart , and record must be made that a dish of cooked 

 Roman snails gathered in the woods were served and tasted 

 by more than one. The conclusion, however, arrived at was 

 that the art of cooking them had been lost. A paper by 

 Edwin Witchell, Esq. , E.G.S., on "The Denudation of the 

 Cotteswolds," was most appropriate in the midst of a heavy 

 snowstorm which was then actually setting to work those very 

 agencies to which this gentleman attributed the hollowing 

 out of the ravines and combes. The Members after this 

 dispersed, highly gratified with their Excursion. 



