98 PAPERS, ETC. 
Din the Eraren of Campe umd Aneient 
Carth-Works still Eristung aranım 
Bath aut in the Neighbanrhund. 
BY THE REYV. H. M. SCARTH, M.A. 
HERE are no traces of human labour so lasting as 
7 mounds or earth-works—none which in all the 
vieissitudes through which society passes in the lapse of 
ages, retain their characters with so little variation—none 
which so completely defy the hand of time, and provoke 
less the ravages of man. While lofty buildings are de- 
stroyed for the sake of their materials, when they have 
once fallen into disuse, and few edifices are suffered to 
continue unless they can be converted to other purposes, 
and so turned to profitable account—the earth-work con- 
tinues the same, or with very little alteration, from the 
time that it was neglected, or abandoned as a place of 
defencee, or forgotten as a boundary-line, or unused as a 
road, or ceased to be regarded as a place marking the 
repose of the dead, who it may be had fallen in battle. 
