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Published, by the Wiltshire Archeological and 
Natural History Society, One Volume, Atlas 4to, ‘a 
248 pp., 17 large Maps, and 110 Woodcuts, extra 
cloth. | \ 
SECOND EDITION OF we 
:: The BRITISH and ROMAN 
WILTSHIRE DOWNS, 
In x Bundved Sqnare Wiles round Abury: 
BY THE 
REV. ALFRED CHARLES SMITH, M.A,, 
Rector of Vatesbury, Wilts, Hon. Sec. of the Wiltshire Archeological and — i 
Natural History Society; Author of “The Attractions of the Nile,” Ave 
Spring Tour in Portugal,” “A Modern Pilgrimage through Palestine,” 
fe., He. 
ee 
- pps work, the materials of which have been accumulating for twenty-five 
s: years, is the result of innumerable rambles and rides over the Downs of — a 
North Wiltshire, and deals with one of the most important Archzological Dis- — ahd 
___ tricts in Europe. 9 aaa 
: It consists of a large quarto volume, containing an account of allthe Barrows, 
_. Camps, Roads, Dykes, Enclosures, Cromlechs, Circles, and other British and ~~ 
Roman Stone and Earth-works of a most primitive district, with references to and 
_ extracts from the best authorities, as well as figures of many of the various ums 
and other objects found in Barrows, views of Cromlechs, plans of Camps, &e. 
_ Bound up with this volume, in sections, are maps, printed in six colours, on the 
' scale of six linear inches, or thirty-six square inches, to a mile, comprising one 
* hundred square miles round Abury, and including thirteen miles from east to 
west and eight miles from north to south, being the great plateau of the North 
Wiltshire Downs, on which all the antiquities are shown and may readily be 
found, and referred to by means of letters and figures. An Index Map, on the 
_ scale of one inch to the mile, coloured, numbered, lettered, and divided like the 
ae Large Map, accompanies the volume, 
This is a reprint, undertaken by the Wiltshire Archzological and Natural 
istory Society, in consequence of more than one-third of the first edition having 
destroyed at the binders’ in the great fire in Paternoster Row in 1883. 
he work can be obtained from the Financial Secretary of the Society, 
W. Nort, 15, High Street, Devizes; or from the following Booksellers: 
EF. Buut, 4, Saint John Street, Devizes; Messrs. Brown, Canal, 
and Mr. Bernarp QuanitcH, 15, Piccadilly, London ; es 
Price B2 2s. 
