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They are ofthe same form as those used by the 
Welsh, at the present day, for their coracles. Also 
a flint, found four feet deepin the peat; perhaps it 
was used for striking fire, as half-burnt sticks of yew 
were near it. 
I have to lament the loss of a most interesting 
relic, as only one has been found of the kind in 
this neighbourhood ; it was a very large canoe, 
and was formed from an immense oak, and no 
doubt excavated by fire. I understand it was 
long known as “Squire Phippen’s big ship,” and it 
made its appearance partially in very dry seasons. 
I met with this information too late, and to my great 
mortification, I one day bad a piece of the poor old 
“ship” brought me, and was told she had been 
broken up in the dıy weather, and used by the cot- 
tagers for fuel. The oak was as firm as when the 
vessel was sunk perhaps 2000 years since, the peat 
in which it was discovered having such a wonder- 
fully preservative power. 
The next British remain I have to describe, has 
been considered unique by many learned anti- 
quaries to whom I have shewn it, especially by Sir 
Walter Trevelyan, the president of our society. 
It is a bow of yew, formed evidently before the 
Britons knew the use of brass. Nothing can be 
more rude: the knob and point are perfect, and the 
groove formed in the largest part of the stick (for 
it is merely such as a boy would now cut for the 
same purpose) was evidently scraped out by a flint 
