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elevation above the other ; but the inclemency of the weather pre- 

 vented the continnation of the excavations for the present. No 

 objects of any kind were found to help us to fix the people or date 

 to which these interments belong ; but there can be no doubt that 

 they were of very great antiquity ; and they probably still remain 

 undisturbed over some part of the top of the hill, which has never 

 been quarried. The occurrence of implements made of iron would 

 lead us to suppose that this was an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery, in 

 which case, it would be the first discovery of Anglo-Saxons found 

 on the Welsh border ; and, as the Mercians (Angles) and the West- 

 Saxons met and appear to have overlapped each other in this district, 

 the objects found with the bones would perhaps enable us to decide 

 which of those two divisions of the Teutonic settlers in our island 

 first established itself in South Shropshire. The graves appear to 

 have been cut into the decomposed and soft upper part of the rock, 

 in the same manner as, in Kent, they are dug into the chalk. 



Further explorations have been made among the sepulchral 

 tumuli on the Yorkshire wolds, some account of which has been 

 given in the contemporary papers. From these descriptions, which 

 do not appear to us to be entirely satisfactory, it appears that the 

 objects found consisted of human skeletons, of broken pottery, and 

 of flint flakes, and presumed flint implements, with nothing to sug- 

 gest any decided opinion as to their date. The tumuli opened were 

 three in number, situated on the Sherburn wolds, near Scarborough. 

 In each of them, bones were found, thrown together very con- 

 fusedly, and independent of the entire skeletons ; and it is assumed, 

 we think rather unnecessarily, that these are the results of the 

 practice of cannibalism among the race who are buried in these 

 tumuli. It must not be forgotten, that all these tumuli are described 

 as having been much crushed and broken down by the process of 

 tillage, and that the bones may therefore have been, at some former 

 period, dug up accidentally, and reinterred in this confused manner. 



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Charles Waterton : His Home, Habits, and Handtwork. Reminis- 

 cences of an Intimate and most Confiding Personal Association for 

 Thirty Years. ■ By Richard Hobson, M.D., Cantab., Leeds. With 

 Sixteen Illustrations. (Whittaker & Co.) — Dr. Hobson has pro- 

 duced a very pleasant, rambling, but readable collection of 

 reminiscences of Charles Waterton, and of his famous residence, 

 Walton Hall, a large mansion, built on an island in a great pond, 

 or lake, in which all kinds of water-fowl found a happy, undisturbed 

 home, while land creatures were equally cared for and protected in 

 the adjacent park. The house was full of stuffed specimens, 

 exemplifying its owner's remarkable skill as a taxidermist, and 

 justifying, according to the general opinion of those who were 



