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the two days’ excursion. Before, however, leaving Blandford, a 
slight detour was made to see an old house in the town, belonging 
to Mr. Luff, of late Elizabethan date. It was built of red brick, 
and carried two elegant chimney stacks, ornamented with round 
terra-cotta pilasters ; these were so placed that all the flues of the 
house passed up into them, and instead of being, as is usually the 
case, a disfigurement, were an ornament to the roof. The rooms 
were loaded with curiosities of every description, china, pictures, 
and bric-a-brac met one at every turn, and instead of the few 
moments allowed for their examination, would have required days. 
The time did not, however, admit any further delay, and again, 
under the guidance of Sir Talbot Baker, the party passed over 
the downs and between some tumuli to Buzbury camp. This was 
not of such interest as to cause a long delay, a walk round showed 
it to be a circle within a circle, and probably constructed at two 
periods. Considerable space intervened between the outer rampart 
and the inner one. It was considered to be about the same age 
as the others recently visited. Regaining the carriage, a new road 
across the down was followed to Rushton. Before entering the 
village the small stream of the Tarrant was crossed—hence the 
origin of the many “‘ Tarrants” in the valley applied as prefix to 
the villages. Before visiting the church the Rector’s geological 
collection was inspected, and many local fossils worthy of notice, 
amongst them the baby tooth of an elephant, or the tooth of a 
baby elephant, from the gravels of Blandford S. Mary, probably 
the same place whence Mr. Shipp’s mammalian remains came ; a 
good specimen of the stem of a tree-fern, from the upper green- 
sand of Shaftesbury, originally called Protupteris punctata, now 
Caulopteris punctata, and figured in the Geological Magazine, vol. 
2, p. 484, pl. 8. The church is of cruciform shape, with the tower 
at the south-west end, and has many architectural bits of great 
interest, ranging from the Transition period to the Perpendicular. 
Inside the inner door of the south porch is a carving of the 
Norman period, supposed to represent the Trinity. The second 
