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KELIQTJI^E AQUITANIOgS. 



Turf-cutter, or Broom-maker, or perhaps a Shepherd, lately picked up on the heath 

 at Wishmoor, near Bagshot, on the confines of Berks and Surrey, by C. Cooper 

 King, Esq., R.M.Art. 



Fig. 71. 



Fig. 70. 



Fig. 70. Tally-board* used in the south of Ireland. 



Reduced. (From a Sketch by M. J. C. 



Bud-ley, Esq.) 

 Fig. 71. Burmese Tally. Two thirds nat. size. (In 



the Christy Collection.) 

 Fig. 72. Tally-stick from Wishmoor, Surrey. One 



half nat. size. (In the Christy Collection.) 



Fig. 72. 



In reply to an inquiry on the subject, G. D. Atherstone, Esq., of Graham's 

 Town, South Africa, has obliged me with the following : " I find that the native 

 shepherds in the Cape Colony keep a Tally-stick on which they make a score for 

 every sheep that dies. There is generally one herd to each flock of 1000 sheep ; 



* In Hogarth's picture of the Distressed Poet the milk-maid presents a heavily scored Tally-board, of an 

 oblong shape, broader than fig. 70, to the poor moneyless man. 



