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ful, the victorious, to the Nymphs and Fountains." There is 

 no particular spring now known very near the spot, where the 

 altar was found ; but there are some within five minutes' walk 

 of the place, and the district abounds with them. It is sup- 

 '^ posed this curious piece of antiquity was thrown down, and 

 buried, at the time the Romans took their last leave of Britain, 

 which was about the year 448 of the Christian era. — New 

 Monthly Magazine. 



5. Druidical Sepulchre. — Ten sepulchral urns were lately 

 found about a foot below the surface on the grounds of Llys 

 D'unfarm, the property of Joseph Huddart, Esq., near the 

 Roman military communication between the tumulus at 

 Llocheddier and that of Dolbermaon, in Caernarvonshire. The 

 urns occupied a circular space about five yards in diameter, 

 which seemed to have been surrounded by a stone wall. They 

 lay in a straight line, and were filled with bones and ashes ; 

 the first containing a small piece of copper. Each urn was 

 protected by four upright stones in a rectangular form, with a 

 flat stone on the top, and a few handfuls of pure gravel under- 

 neath. They crumbled into ashes when the ploughman at- 

 tempted to remove them, and not a fragment above the size of a 

 square inch could be found a fnw days after the discovery. 

 From there being several druidical remains in the neighbour- 

 hood, it is supposed to have been a place of sepulchre conse- 

 crated by the Druids. A great part of the sepulchre still 

 remains untouched. — Monthly Mag. May 1821. 



6. Literary Notices. — i. The first volume of Mr. A. P. Thom- 

 son's Lectures on Botany is almost ready for publication. It 

 will contain the descriptive anatomy and physiology of those 

 organs which are necessary for the growth and preservation of 

 the plant as an individual ; and will be illustrated by more than 

 one hundred wood-cuts and ten copper-plates. It is intended 

 to form the first part of a complete system of Elementary 

 Botany. 



ii. Next month will be published, A Treatise of the Prin- 

 ciples of Bridges btj Suspension, with reference to the Catenary^ 

 and exemplified by the Cable Bridge now in progress over the 

 Strait of Menai. In it the properties of tlie catenary will be 

 fully investigated, and those of arches and piers will be derived 

 from the motion of a projectile. It will contain practical 

 tables, a table of the dimensions of a catenary, and tables o. 

 the principal chain, rope, stone, wood, and iron bridges ; with 

 the dimensions of them erected in different countries. 



iii. Mr. Gideon Mantell, F. L. S. is about publishing in one 

 volume, royal quarto, (illustrated by numerous engravings), the 

 Fossils of the South Downs; or. Outlines of the Geology of the 

 South-eastern Division of Sussex. 



