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Mendip ; and that a third and a fourth should carry us still lower 
in the direction of Bridgwater and Taunton, where much is to be 
found that would reward our investigation. Having made these 
suggestions, I will now cease, only suggesting to the Club that 
they must never lose sight of the object of its formation, which 
is to investigate and to record whatever may be of interest either 
in natural history or antiquarian learning, so that matter may be 
found not only for mutual improvement and pleasant relaxation, 
but for future history, and for the benefit and instruction of 
later times. 
PostscripT.—While the foregoing address has been passing through the 
press further Assyrian discoveries have been made by Mr. George Smith, of 
the Department of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum. These have 
_ now appeared in a work published by Samson Low & Co., and give details 
which cannot but prove deeply interesting to all Archzological or Biblical 
students. Many Tablets have been added to the number found by Mr. 
Layard at Nineveh. These have been deciphered, and we have in them 
records which not only confirm the Inspired Narrative, but also7fill up 
omissions in the records of profane history. In 1872 a Lecture was 
delivered to the Society of Biblical Archeology by Mr. Smith on the 
Assyrian Tablets which record the Deluge ; other portions have since been 
recovered by him at a subsequent visit to the East, and of these he has now 
given a more perfect record. 
The Battle of Lansdown, A.D. 1643. By E. GREEN. 
*, (Read January 15th, 1875.) 
In the year sixteen hundred and forty-two a Civil War broke 
out in England. 
The causes were many and some of them of long standing. 
Summarised they may be said to have been the determined and 
continued efforts of the King to make himself despotic. 
The Houses of Parliament being equally stubborn and 
determined in their opposition to his proceedings, it eventually 
