114 Anniversary Address. 



circles, with part of a ninth, and measuring forty-five inches 

 in diameter, the party returned by Cuddy's Cove to Dod- 

 dington. 



The dinner, which was served in the school room, and 

 supplied by the Red Lion Inn, Wooler, was abundant and 

 excellent. After the dinner was concluded, three new mem- 

 bers, the Revs. James Noble, Win. Procter, jun., and E. B. 

 Trotter, were nominated ; the Rev. W. Procter, jun., read a 

 paper on the " History of Doddington," which will appear in 

 the proceedings of the Club ; and Mr. G. Tate laid before the 

 meeting several sketches of sculptured rocks, and gave an 

 outline of a supplemental paper, which would contain an 

 account of sculptures discovered since 1862, and a notice of 

 the several attempts made to explain their age and meaning. 

 After glancing at the opinion of Professor Nillson, that Stone- 

 henge and the Northumbrian inscriptions were the work of 

 Phoenicians and sun-worshippers, he noticed the speculation 

 of the Rev. R. H. Vickers, who also connects these inscrip- 

 tions with sun-worship, and considers them to have been 

 derived from forms on debased ancient British coins, which 

 originally represented the head of Apollo, the Sun God, 

 copied from ancient Greek coins. He concluded by reading 

 a most interesting letter from the late Mr. H. Ormsby, of 

 the Indian Geological Survey, who, when in England, in 

 1868, was struck with the resemblance of some of the North- 

 umbrian sculptures to markings on rocks in Lower Bengal. 

 The district of Manbhoom, Chota, and Nagpore, are inhabited 

 by original tribes, called Coles, Hoes, Sonthals, &c, who 

 differ essentially in colour, language, habits, and religion 

 from the other nations surrounding them. Their religion is 

 a sort of Fetishism, a worship of what they most fear or most 

 love. They venerate the sun, and the moon, running water, 

 the hills, and the trees, but they fear the elephant and the 

 tiger, and therefore worship them. The hills are formed of 

 porphyritic gneiss, which rise abruptly from the plain to the 

 height of 100 to 200 feet ; each hill is supposed to be the 

 residence of a deity, and they cut upon the rock a figure, with 



