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A pleasant drive past a series of parks, through the villages 

 of Henbury and Westbury, and across Durdham Down, 

 concluded a very agreeable Excursion. 



WALKS. 



The Tuesday Walks and Excursions, by no means an 

 unimportant feature in the Proceedings of the Club, have 

 been maintained with the accustomed assiduity. One of the 

 earliest in the spring of 1868 worth recording was on 3rd of 

 March to Batheaston, for the object of testing the temperature 

 of the water that flows from the shaft sunk to the depth 

 of 670 feet in the trial for coal made a.d. 1812, into the 

 Mill Brook, a distance of 108 yards. The result was the 

 following :- 



The Negretti and Zambra, when tested with the standard 

 thermometer at the Institution Gardens, was - l^'S. The taste 

 of the water was somewhat saline. 



In the same month, the Roman road was traced from the 

 Ford at Bathford, up the hill to the Church, through the 

 churchyard and fields to Farley Down. The Secretary found 

 some "flint flakes" and "scrapers" in the field through 

 which the Roman road, passes at the back of the Church ; 

 also on the top of the Down in a field behind Brown's 

 Tower: flint pebbles are very abundantly scattered over 

 this field. 



Englishcombe and its so-called Barrow were visited on 

 another day, and the grass-grown mounds which encircle 

 what was formerly the baronial castle of the De Gournays. 

 Whilst tracing the Wansdyke in the fields near the orchard 

 to the west of the Church, several fine specimens of inferior 



