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ing each other and tails crossed, and other hieroglyphical 

 emblems represented on the other side ; the remaining two 

 sides have been cut away to form the portion of a jamb to a 

 doorway at some early period, and the whole was found 

 during the late restoration built up in the wall of the church, 

 the sharpness of the ornamental details being entirely due to 

 that position. A fine old font, with interlacing Norman 

 arcading, stands on the left of the south doorway. The roof 

 is a good specimen of loth century work. A Hagioscope, 

 or " squint," is preserved in the north transept chapel. 

 Beneath the tower, which curiously takes the place of what 

 would be the south transept, in the east wall, is a double 

 piscina with sharply pointed arches, certainly not of a date 

 more recent than early English. Over the site of the Rood 

 loft the roof has been coloured. A very good so-called 

 " lepers" window at the back of the pulpit on the south side, 

 sedilia, and piscina in the south wall of the chancel constitute 

 the remaining features of this very interesting little church, 

 of which the rector of the parish (the Rev. W. L. Metcalf) 

 was most obliging in pointing out the peculiarities. Return- 

 ing thence to Queen Camel, a sulphureous spring was passed, 

 which issues close to a little brook, possibly from the Rhcetic 

 or hassic shales ; the smell of rotten eggs indicated its 

 vicinity, and Members who were conversant with the Harrow- 

 gate waters at once pronounced its identity. The natives call 

 it the "water that never sweats," and the "black well." Queen 

 Camel Church has a good tower and screen, and is the 

 skeleton of a fine church. Whitewash, high pews, and a 

 " parson and clerk" reading desk are the chief characteristics 

 of the internal arrangements. After lunch at a small inn at 

 South Cadbury, the chief feature remarkable about which was 

 the high price of the viands, the Fort of Cadbury was stormed 

 imder the guidance of the clergyman of the place and H. 

 E. Bennett, Esq., of Sparkford, who was the kind cicerone for 



