2 THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 
men appointed as local Secretaries were J. H. Pring, Esgq. 
M.D. and the Rev. C. P. Parish. H. C. Trenchard, Esgq. 
and the Rev. H. Parr, were elected new members of the 
Committee. The names of sixty-four new members were 
also added to the roll of the Society. 
After the conclusion of the formal business, the meeting 
was adjourned till one o’clock, when the chairman opened 
the proceedings in a brief and appropriate address. He 
directed the attention of such as wished to visit some of 
the objects of arch&ological interest in the vicinity, to a 
few within reach. The first place he would mention was 
Churchill, about ten miles distant, where, on a bold ridge of 
the Mendip Hills, was to be seen a remarkably fine Roman 
encampment. Many were aware that at Cheddar there 
was a fine stream of water, which gushed from the base 
of the cliffs. At some few miles from the spot, amongst 
the Mendips, was what was termed a “swallet hole,” into 
which flowed a stream of similar volume, and it had been 
surmised that this stream was the one which found its vent 
at Cheddar. That supposition was now confirmed. A 
mining company had recently been established on the 
hills, whose refuse materials sometimes discoloured the 
water of the engulphed stream, and the same water now 
found its way, in its discoloured state, to the stream at 
Cheddar. At Wrington was still standing the house in 
which John Locke was born, though it derived its interest 
solely from this eircumstance, and was little worth looking 
at as a building ; near it however was the very fine old 
parish church, which was well worthy of a visit. Adjoin- 
ing to Wrington, was the fine old church of Yatton ; and 
there was also a church of much interest at Christon, a 
very small structure, and supposed to be one of the oldest 
in Somerset. On the part of the inhabitants of this neigh- 
