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 Snttotr, 



BY THE REV. F. WARKE. 



PEN PITS AND CADBURY. 



THERE i3 a peculiar feature of the district which is 

 the scene of our annual meeting for this year, which 

 can hardly fail to attract the attention of every observant 

 traveller who passes by railroad from Yeovil to Westbury ; 

 I mean that every hill-top, every inch of undisturbed pas- 

 ture situated high enough to afford a tolerably dry habita- 

 tion, bears the marks of human occupation. The slight 

 defences of cattle enclosures may be traced on almost 

 every elevated spot, and I doubt not the sites of the 

 villages inhabited by the owners of the herds may be dis- 

 covered near them. Lynchets on the smooth turf of the 

 hill sides, bear witness to cultivation so ancient, that the 

 Vegetation has returned to its natural state — that produced 

 by the disturbance of the soil having totally disappeared ; 

 series of terraces, probably marking the entrenched posi- 

 tion of armies on the field of battle and military stations of 

 greater or less strength and importance, give proof of pri- 

 meval occupation, both peaceful and warlike, more posi- 

 tivelv than in almost every other part of the county which 



