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large crushing mills have been erected and are driven by a 
powerful engine. The visitors were then shown the machine by 
which the bricks are made, six at a time, with great rapidity, 
and were then conducted through the drying shed where the 
warmth of the atmosphere, increasing as they walked to the end, 
yery much puzzled one of the visitors until he was told that there 
were fiues underneath, and he was approaching the end where the 
fire was. The same lively imagination on being shown the bricks 
in course of erection in the kiln inquired whether it would he 
possible for him to remain there and watch the process of 
burning, but on obtaining further information he abstained from 
trying it. It was stated that these bricks would bear a weight of 
120 tons before crumbling, the usual Staffordshire test being 40 
tons. On the way back the Roman camp, partially eaten away by 
the Severn, and the ruins of a Decorated chapel were examined. 
Bath was reached at 7.17 after a most enjoyable day. 
WALKS, 
The monthly walks have been organised by Mr. Herdman 
with much industry, but the attendance of members has been very 
small, Siston and Pucklechurch was the object of a walk on the 
1st of November. Train was left at Warmley and the Church at 
Siston visited. The principal points of interest are the fine 
Norman doorway, the font with its leaden body supported by a 
stone pedestal, the chained books, and general dilapidated look 
of the whole building. Another point calling for remark was 
q the inaccessibility of the fine old deserted Court. A walk across 
the fields to Pucklechurch took the members to Dods, or Ashfield 
_ Farm, where, by the courtesy of the present tenant, permission 
Was granted to see the fine oak Jacobean staircase. After 
inspecting the Church they lunched in the village, and the cold 
_ Tain which began induced them to return to Bath by rail from 
_ Mangotsfield instead of walking over Lansdown, one member 
__ alone being sufficiently brave to adhere to the original plan. 
