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of "religion and of science we may boldly say as of man and 

 wife, what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder ;" 

 and it is not claiming more than the facts warrant us to say, that 

 in respect of every science touched upon in Scriptures whether 

 astronomy, geology, botany, ethnology, archaeology, or philology, 

 the latest researches and discoveries have in every instance, 

 instead of invalidating the Scriptures, gone to confirm them, and 

 often in a most remarkable manner. They corroborate the names 

 of nations and peoples recorded on the inscriptions, and if to be 

 trusted in this respect, we may claim equal trust in all others. 



While Professor Sayce, Mr. Wright, Mr. Campbell, and others 

 are mastering the history of ancient nations from papyrus, clay, and 

 rock-inscribed records, unknown in many cases, except from the 

 pages of the Bible, General Pitt Rivers is unravelling the un- 

 written history of the former inhabitants of this and neighbouring 

 counties by a series of scientific and carefully arranged excavations. 

 He has privately published in three thick illustrated volumes 

 as well as in various memoirs the results of his work. The account 

 of his examination of Bokerly Dyke and of Woodyates, which 

 occupies the greater part of the third volume, incontestibly shows 

 that here is the site of Vindogladia, a subject of contention among 

 antiquarians. Its stated distance from Old Sarum in the Iter of 

 Antoninus exactly corresponds with the measured distance of 

 Bokerly from that place, and being on the Roman road, and in the 

 same direction, Vindogladia and Bokerly must be one and the same 

 place. The approximate dates of the alterations and renovations 

 of Bokerly (for there have been more than one) are ascertained 

 to have been both previous and subsequent to the Roman period. 

 General Pitt Rivers has also had Wansdyke under examination ; 

 the results of which are also described in the third volume. 



The late Mr. Charles Warne discovered a Roman kiln at Bagber, 

 in the parish of Milton Abbas, in which pottery of various textures 

 and colours abundant, chiefly of a close-grained brown hue, which 

 from its resemblance to the pottery found at Woodcuts and 

 Rotherly, General Pitt Rivers concluded that the Bagber kiln 



