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of their kind guides, the Maycr and the Engineer with many 
expressions of thanks, and drove to Gloucester in time for the 
evening train to Bath, having accomplished a very interesting 
day’s journey, and seen much that will survive as a pleasant and 
instructive memory. 
Excursion to Compton Martin and Cheddar Pass.—This excursion, 
postponed from last year, took place on the 20th June, the 
Secretary being absent. The Vice-President kindly informed him 
that he met the Club at Compton Martin, where Mr. Adlam’s 
and his own notes were read, and some useful observations after- 
wards made by Mr. Browne. After this a light luncheon was 
provided for the members at the Rectory, where Mrs. Warren, in 
the absence of the Rector, kindly received the members. Directing 
the break to meet the members on the hill above, Mr. Scarth 
acted as their guide in search of the spring the source cf the river 
Yeo. This being really covered over and conveyed through a 
pipe into a trough in the lane was not unnaturally overlooked. 
A sketch was however afterwards taken by the Vice-President 
of the spot where it rises. The break being met at the summit 
of the Mendips, the road was taken for Cheddar, and left at the 
top of the pass, the members walking down the same to the 
station. Some mistake seems to have arisen as to the necessity 
or otherwise for dinner, and a cold reception awaited them at 
the refreshment rooms. The following are the notes alluded to :— 
The name was anciently written Contone. Here is the source of the 
river Yeo, called in the Perambulation of Wrington (date unknown) 
and in Abbot Beer’s Terrier the Wring. The spring is above the 
Church, and the outlet into the sea near Wick S. Laurence. It passes 
through the parishes of Ubley, Blagdon, Wrington, and Congresbury. 
The Manor of Contone was given by William the Conqueror to Serlo 
de Burci, and is described in Domesday. Collinson states that the 
name Martin is derived from afamily of eminence. The first recorded 
of that name is Martin of Tours, a Norman, who conquered the terri- 
tory of Kemeys, in the county of Pembroke, and founded a monastery 
for Benedictine monks at 8. Dogmael’s, and annexed it as a cell to the 
