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BT TUE REV. THOMAS HUGO, M.A., F. S.A., F.R.S.L., ETC., 

 HON. MEMBER. 



THE Somersetshire tourist, as he descends froni the 

 high ground on which Stands the town of Langport, 

 may well be pardoned for lingering every now and then on 

 his downward road, as the beauties of the opening land- 

 scape successively present themselves to his vievv. Scarcely 

 has he bidden farewell to the last humble homestcad, when 

 his notice is attracted by the exquisite tovver of Huish 

 Episcopi, with its pierced battlement, delicate pinnacles, 

 and elaborate bands of foliated ornamentation — a marvel 

 of the Perpendicular age of English ecclesiastical archi- 

 tecture. Passing from this, his eye may roam over an 

 almost boundless expanse of piain, where, when I last 

 beheld it, high grass was bending to the breezes of a 

 lovely morning in June, while here and there in the dis- 

 tance immense com fields might be discerned, less agitated 

 than the former. and with more slowly and majestically 

 vibrating surface. Straight into the midst runs a hedge- 

 less road, of apparently uniform width and level, but 



