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eight members, and introduced them to the manager, Mr. 
Anderson, under whose guidance the various processes of tipping, 
mixing, and smelting the ore were inspected ; then, passing the 
large heaps of chalk brought from the neighbouring downs for 
the purpose of being used as a flux (nineteen hundredweight of 
chalk to three tons of ore), and peeping in through the openings 
in the blast furnaces at the rainbow tints of the incandescent 
gases, and admiring the fertility of mechanical skill which has 
utilised so mighty an agent for industrial purposes, by some 
extraordinary attraction the party found itself in the manager’s 
room admiring a rich collection of Roman coins in silver and 
copper, Roman pottery and pottery moulds, and a curious iron 
implement which at the time much puzzled the antiquaries as 
to its date and use. A native, however, in the course of the 
morning’s walk, near Bratton Church, threw a flood of light on 
the subject, as he was seen bearing on his shoulders a 
polished specimen of the same instrument wherewith he had 
been digging potatos. It may be described as a spade with 
the solid centre cut out, somewhat similar to a garden hoe, 
leaving only sufficient material at the bottom to raise 
the potatos by. This form seems peculiar to this district. 
Various large Saurian vertebre and other remains from the 
Kimmeridge clay were collected in this little museum, which 
boasted likewise of some good champagne and sherry provided 
by the kind forethought of the directors, who, with Mr. Anderson, 
were duly thanked for their hospitality. With some little difficulty 
a start was again affected, and the next points of interest were 
the section whence the ore was being dug out; the ‘pockets’ or 
depressions about two or three feet below the surface, where the 
principal Roman remains occurred; and a curious section of 
Kimmeridge clay, with reddish brown irony sands below inter- 
calated with greenish blue bands ; and then the Members breasted 
the hill in good earnest for the White Horse and Bratton Castle. 
Mr. Skrine was already at his post, just above the tip of the White 
