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cracked, came from Senacherib's palace at Nineveh, and were dug out of 

 the mound Kouyunjik among the ruins of the city. They were floated 

 down the river Tigris on a raft to Busrah, where they were shipped for 

 England, and came round the Cape. 



The old kitchen and scullery, stated to have belonged to John of 

 Gaunt, also created much interest. Here the Secretary read a resume, 

 drawn from " Hutchins' History of Dorset," which gives a detailed 

 account of these buildings and the successive Lords of the Manor. It 

 may be well to mention the following facts in connection with this 

 kitchen : It appears from Hutchins' account that a little east of the 

 Church stood the seat of the Webbs. It was not very large, and was 

 probably built at different times, with little regularity, out of the ruins 

 of the old house. Adjoining the house on the north was, till 1774, a 

 long range of most ancient buildings, the remains of the seat of the 

 ancient Lords of the Manor. Towards the west end was a large old 

 kitchen, called by the country people John of (Jaunt's Kitchen. This 

 building still remains (1868), and is still used for its original ptupOMDltbe 

 present mansion. It was made a brewhouse, and had a remarkably large 

 chimney, 18ft, broad and 6Aft. high, in the crown of the arch. In the 

 earlier edition of Hutchins' it is stated that this ancient house was 

 probably erected by William Montacute, first Earl of Sarum, or his 

 father William. 



After leaving Canford House the party walked across to the Parish 

 Church. The architectural characteristics of the building were described 

 in a paper prepared for the occasion and read by the Rev. Sir Talbot 

 Baker, which will be found at p. 146 in this volume. Subsequently the 

 members were entertained at tea in the Rectory by the Rev. J. L. and 

 Mrs. Williams, and this brought the day to a termination. 



ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 16TH, a meeting was held at Weymouth, for 

 which a programme had been prepared, which was, perhaps, too varied 

 if anything for the time allotted to it. The party met at the Weymouth 

 Railway Station at 11.45, where brakes and carriages were in readiness to 

 convey them to Preston. Here Mr. T. B. Uroves, of Weymouth, read a 

 paper upon the " Roman Pavement," which was discovered here about 

 the year 1852, of which the following is the outline : 



Dorchester, during the Roman occupation of Britain, is supposed to 

 have had connection with the sea by the Port of Clavinio, and it is at the 

 north of this Preston valley that such competent arch.ieologists as 

 Mr. Charles Warne and Dr. Buckland are disposed to look for its site. 

 The first discoverer of Roman remains in this immediate vicinity was Mr. 



