.A. LIETTIEIR, 



To the Rev. W. BARNES, B.D., 



On his Paper Entitled 



totirn 0rt the ladvlen 0r 0theiien 



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//? /?e Proceedings of the Field Club, Vol. 5. 



By Dr. WAKE SMART. 



DEAR SIR, 







AVING given in time past a good deal of con- 

 sideration to this subject, and more recently 

 having read your paper with great and renewed 

 interest, I feel constrained to offer you a few 

 remarks thereon, with special reference to those 

 points on which we agree, as well as those 

 which we differ; but, in the first place, I beg 

 to assure you that any statement which falls from 

 your pen I receive with unfeigned respect ; and, knowing 

 that the elucidation of facts, without which no theory, however 

 specious, can be of any real value, is equally your desire as it is 

 my own, I am sure you will at once give me credit for the 

 motive that induces me to address you. 



BOOKLET, or BOCKERLEY DYKE is a great work, differing in no 

 essential respect from other earthworks of similar 

 construction, attributed usually, and justly so, to the great 

 Keltic race. In its course of some three miles across the open 

 Down, it is seen to make three or four wide angles, the reason 



