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antiquity in the form of a Eoinan building -with its 

 liypocatist, together with pieces of pottery and a few 

 coins. When we get over the next field, past Tower 

 No. 2, we are on the Warren again. Let us go down 

 over the broken ground to this large pond, which is 

 only two or three years old, as you might guess from 

 the bramble and hawthorn trees withered and dead 

 in the midst of the waters like memories of the past. 

 The hollow was formed when the collapse of the 

 tunnel occurred in January, 1877. The place was 

 altogether a scene of ruin and disorder after that 

 event, one small pond was literally turned inside out, 

 and its bed, full of shells of Pond Snails (Limnaa 

 j>cref/ra and L. staijnalis) is now an elevation. Great 

 cracks, some a couple of feet wide and four or five 

 deep, were left in the ground, in fact it seemed as if 

 the Warren had been visited by an earthquake. And 

 such, on a small scale, I suppose we may say it was. 

 This again was the result of the action of fresh 

 water accumulated during a long wet season, and pent 

 up until it exerted its well-known strength and com- 

 pletely wrecked the place. For many long weeks 

 afterwards a stream ran down either side of the rail- 

 way until it was all drained away. Well, this pond 

 is, as I said, one of its results. 



At all periods of the year, and at every hour of 

 the day and night the Warren repays a visit. But 

 to me it is prettiest in Spring and early Summer, 

 doubtless by contrast with its wintry aspect the 

 days when the milder weather begins to fill the 

 mind with longings after 



" The fall of waters, and the sorig of birds." 



I have just been looking at some notes of a visit 



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