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two other sepulchres, in which human skeletons were found in 
soroi, constructed of flints and pebbles, put together with fine 
gravel. These soroi were surrounded each by a circular wall 2 
feet thick, and about 3 feet high, 22 feet in diameter. The whole 
were covered beneath mounds of earth, which rose in hills about 
2 feet above the soro?, having been probably diminished in height 
by long pressure and the effect of rains.—lIn the first soros (which 
was 5 feet square and 8 feet deep, brought toa point with peb- 
bles,) were found two skeletons. The uppermost appeared to be 
of larger size. Under the skull was found the blade of a 
poignard or knife. The head of this skeleton rested upon the 
body of the other. The soros was full of dirt ; and patches of a 
white unctuous substance, like spermaceti, adhered to the flints. 
It had an oak bottom, black as ink, but stained with the green 
oxide of copper, owing to the decomposition of an ancient bronze 
vessel, very small parts of which have been removed to this Uni- 
versity, and analysed; the composition consisting, as usual in an- 
cient bronze, of an alloy of copper and tin, in the proportion of $8 
of the former to 12 of the latter. Large iron nails, reduced al- 
most to an oxide, were also found here. In the other soros (which 
was 4 feet square within its circular wall, and 8 feet deep,) a 
human skeleton was found; and another below it in a sitting 
posture, with an erect spear, the point of which was of iron. 
Nails were found here, but no qwood, as in the other soros. Here 
the small quadruped bones were found in great abundance. The 
skull of the sitting figure was stolen by one of the labourers, and 
carried to his own cottage at Whittlesford : it had every tooth 
perfect. The robbery has given rise to a very amusing instance 
of superstition ; for it is maintained at Whittlesford, that the 
headless skeleton of an ancient warrior knocks every night at the 
door of this cottager, demanding the skull sacrilegiously stolen from 
his grave. 
Much more might be added respecting the antiquities of Got 
Moor, and of The Chronicle Hills. Many gentlemen of the Uni- 
versity have resorted to the spot to gratify their curiosity. The 
mode of burial exhibited by those antient sepulchres, added to the 
fact of the bronze reliques found within one of them, and also that 
no Roman coins have ever been discovered among the other ruins, 
plead strongly for the superior antiquity of the people here in- 
terred ; and lead to a conclusion, that The Chronicle Hills were 
rather Celtic than Roman tombs. 
THE RAINBOW, 
According to the Newtonian hypothesis, this phenomenon is 
occasioned by the refraction of the sun’s rays by drops of rain in 
the quarter in which the bow is seen. Dr. Watt, of Ghee 
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