viii Contents. 



CHAPTER PA(JE 



XIV. The Old South- Western Seaboard. — Somerford, Chewton 



Glen, Hurst Castle, and Lyinington . . 145 



XV. The Gipsy and the West-Saxon . . . 158 



XVI. The Folk-Lore and Provincialisms . . . .172 



XVII. The Barrows , . . .196 



XVni. The Roman and Romano-British Potteries . . . 214 



XIX. The Parish Registers and Churchwardens' Books . 226 



XX. The Geology . . . . . . . 234 



XXI. The Botany ...... 250 



XXII. The Ornithology . , . . . .258 



APPENDICES. 



I. Glossary ot Provincialisms . . , , . 279 



11. List of the Flowering Plants . . , . 289 



III. List of the Birds ...... 307 



IV. List of the Lepidoptera . . . 319 



Postscript . . . . , . .328 



Index ...,.,. 329 



