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Xylographer I name thee, Bewick, taught 



By thy wood-art, that from rock, flood, and tree, 

 Home to our hearths, all lively, light, and free. 



In suited scene, each living thing has brought 



As life elastic, animate with thought. 



Well hast thou Fabled too, would man but see 

 Each masqued lure. And oh ! what cordial glee 



To con thy fancies shrewd, and sharply wrought ! 



Age-honour'd friend, of open heart and mind. 



Like Nature's fields, all bounteous, broad, and bright 

 With freedom, love, sublimity, and mirth ; 



Thy praise in thy own page fair Truth has shrined 

 Gladsome ; for each declares, in lines of light. 

 How heaven's high choral-songs preach to dull ears of earth. 



John F, M. Dovaston. 



Westfelton, near Shrewsbury, 

 Nov. 8. 1829. 



{To be concluded in our next.^ 



Art. II. A Visit to the Mantellian Museum at Lewes. 

 By Robert Bakewell, Esq. 



Sir, 

 Having recently passed part of three days with much sa- 

 tisfaction in examining the various interesting objects in the 

 museum of Gideon Mantell, Esq,, of Lewes, F. R. S., I trust 

 I shall render an acceptable service to many of your readers 

 by giving them an outline of its contents. The collection 

 consists principally of fossil organic remains, illustrative of the 

 geology of Sussex. They are in admirable preservation and 

 are very tastefully and judiciously arranged. Many of the 

 specimens in this collection are unrivalled and unique ; indeed, 

 we are entirely indebted to the scientific investigations of Mr, 

 Mantell, for the first knowledge of their existence, as well as 

 for the complete proof of the true geological character of the 

 strata below the chalk and green sand which occupy the district 

 called the Wealds, in the counties of Kent and Sussex. When 

 Mr. Mantell first commenced his researches in the vicinity of 

 Lewes, no fossil organic remains had been collected there, 

 nor had the quarry men noticed them in the beds they were 

 daily working, but in the course of a few years, Mr. Mantell, 

 succeeded in obtaining the finest collection of chalk fossils in the 

 kingdom : many of them are described in a splendid work 

 which he published in 1822, entitled Fossils of the South 

 Downs, or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex with Fort^" 

 two Plates, engraved by Mrs. Mantell. The most important 



