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to Mrs. Kemble and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kemble for the trouble 
they had so willingly undertaken on their behalf: and called for 
three cheers for them, which were heartily given. To this Mr. 
Kemble replied in suitable words ; and then all began to climb the 
steep sides of the down to Barbury Castle ; amidst whose ramparts, 
lofty banks, and deep ditches they spent a considerable time ; and 
not the least interesting object of examination was a sand-pit, or 
€ pocket of sand,” which was pronounced to be the material from 
which the sarsens, so well known to all Wiltshiremen, were formed. 
On leaving Barbury the party drove straight back, through 
Wroughton, to Swindon. 
At the Conversazione, held in the Town Hall at 8 o’clock, Canon 
Jackson read, in the happy manner peculiar to himself, a very in- 
teresting paper entitled “ A few Notes about Wootton Bassett and 
other places around Swindon.” 
At the close of the paper, the reading of which had been fre- 
quently applauded, Mr. Witt1am Morxis, rising to the call of the 
President, said: —On Tuesday much had been said about the necessity 
for steps being taken to preserve their national monuments, and the 
danger in which Stonehenge now stood was particularly pointed out, 
There was a remark in Canon Jackson’s paper which bore this out 
very fully. The Meeting had heard that Aubrey had referred in 
his Wiltshire Collections to a Druidish temple standing at Broome ; 
one of the stones, called Longstone, standing 10ft. high. Canon 
Jackson, in his Aubrey, had the remark: “Of the great stones 
mentioned by Aubrey none are now remaining.” In his capacity 
as the editor of a local newspaper a correspondent had addressed a 
letter to him, some five-and-twenty years ago, asking if any 
explanation could be given of the disappearance of these stones. 
At that time he (Mr. Morris) could give no explanation, but 
it led to his making enquiries about these stones, and which 
resulted in his discovering that they went to Cricklade to make 
and mend streets and footpaths with. The facts appeared to be 
these: a former inhabitant of that ancient borough had a par- 
ticular weakness for good roads and footways, and when he 
died he left so large an amount of land, the proceeds of which 
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