THOMAS KERSLAKE. 



| HE prospect from where we stand is one of those that 

 usually take rank under the description of being one 

 of the finest in England ; and it certainly is one of 

 the most beautiful of its kind. Other considerable towns boast of 

 such a view from some neighbouring hill, which must be climbed 

 to see it ; few towns are, like this of Shaftesbury, so highly 

 favoured as that its townsmen should be able to step over their 

 own thresholds, as we have now done, into such a glorious 

 scene. 



But to such a party as the present the Antiquarian Field 

 Club of the county of which we now actually see the largest 

 part the picture has an interest which, though not so obvious 

 to the sight, probably rivals that which is more directly 

 presented by the picture itself. Mr. Barnes, in his paper just 

 read, has done me the honour to refer to an example, which I 

 was once so fortunate as to realize, of a phenomenon in the past 

 social condition of the people of this country, of which I think I 

 can point out another example in the district now in our sight. 





