along which the trees were planted are plainly visible, so that the mystery may 

 be considered solved. A continuation of the story may or may not be true viz. , 

 that the plantation was attempted by a noted smuggler who then occupied 

 Eggardon Farm, and who thought a sea mark on the top of the hill would be 

 useful to him. The Government, it is said, destroyed the plantation. The high 

 winds, however, would be quite sufficient to account for the failure of the trees 

 to grow ; and the smuggling story, like so many others of the same sort, may be 

 a mere legend." 

 See Proceedings XX., pp. xxxviii., 174. 



BY COLONEL J. P. CAMBEIDGE : 



(7) Two curious fungoid growths on ash from trees cut down at Bloxworth. 



BY CAPTAIN G. E. ELWES: 



(8) Kubbings of ancient stone crosses. 



BY KEY. W. E. WAUOH: 



(9) Fossil wood from Lyme Eegis. 



BY MR. T. B. GROVES : 



(10) Portions of two letters to the Hon. Secretary from Mr. Groves in regard 

 to the paper by the former, entitled " Notes on the Effect of the Gale of Feb. 

 11-13, 1899, on the Beach to the East of Weymouth," were read as follows : 



See Proceedings, Vol. XX., p. 179. 



" April 15th, 1900. 



" I have been reading in the Field Club Book your useful account of the injury 

 to the Preston Beach by the storm of Feb. 13th, 1899. You appear to be in 

 doubt if a similar accident had occurred in recent times. I can enlighten you 

 upon the point. At the mature age of four years I was sent to a school at 

 Osmington kept by a relative of my father, and remained there four years. 

 During my stay there the pupils were amazed to hear from the music master that 

 he had had to cross the Beach from Weymouth in order to get to his destination, 

 for the sea had broken over it and washed a large portion into the road. That 

 must have been about the year 1835. The shingle then deposited remained there 

 till the G.W.E. thought proper to complete their line to Dorchester, when it 

 was used as ballast. For many years afterwards shallow ponds showed in 

 winter (and perhaps it is so now) where the deposit had been. 



" The beach at that time was much higher than it is at present, as the shifting 

 process was of a dual character, the movement towards Weymouth being 

 counteracted by a reverse movement towards Preston when the S.E. wind (which 

 gave us our heaviest seas) blew." 



(Extract from letter of April 23rd, 1900). 



" The present road was, I have no doubt, made subsequently to the storm of 

 1835 ('r), but when or how I do not know. I remember it was ouce proposed 



