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We should have recommended Mr. White to have employed a 

 more dignified tone in some of his controversial remarks ; but 

 he lias, on the whole, produced a work that exhibits unmis- 

 takeable marks of industry and research, and will enable 

 Swedenborg to be better understood by general readers than 

 heretofore. 



AKCH^OLOGIA. 



At a recent meeting of the British Archaeological Association, on 

 April 10, a number of forged antiquities were exhibited, differing 

 in many respects from the forgeries in lead and cock-metal from the 

 manufactory in Rosemary Lane, to which we have now been so long 

 accustomed. This new class of forgeries seems to have made its 

 appearance about the month of November last, and the articles are 

 usually represented as having been found at Brooks's Wharf, Queen- 

 hithe. The objects produced on this occasion were all made of zinc, 

 and had been washed or dirtied so as to give them an appearance of 

 age. The first was a small kneeling figure holding an open book, 

 evidently copied from some one of the plaster casts commonly 

 hawked about the streets, but with the addition of a nimbus. 

 Another was a small vase, or ampulla, bearing a figure of St. 

 Barbara ; and this same figure is repeated on a brooch pretended to 

 have been discovered in January last. There was also a pin in the 

 shape of a sword, four inches long ; a gauntleted hand and arm, as 

 if broken off from a statuette ; a small label inscribed " Aniurs," 

 intended to appear as if it had formed the foot-rest of a small efQ.gj ; 

 another small ampulla ; two horn-shaped vessels about four inches 

 long; a brooch in form of a helmet; another gauntleted arm; 

 a small gauntlet, and a right leg incased in armour, having the 

 look of a part of the Manx arms. Several of these articles are 

 furnished with rings, to give them the appearance of having been 

 worn as personal ornaments. A very prevailing form of ornament 

 upon them consists of pellets arranged in rows, circles, and other 

 devices. 



Mr. Ecroyd Smith has sent us a copy of his Notabilia of the 

 Archaeology of the Mersey District, in which he gives a much 

 more complete account of the antiquities found of late years on this 

 part of the Cheshire coast than in the report published in the 

 Reliquary from which we gave some notes in our last. We were 

 ourselves led into error, it appears, in an important circumstance in 

 regard to these antiquities. They are not, Mr. Smith informs us, 

 "washed up" on the beach. "They arc washed out, and often 

 down, but never up. Thousands lie in all probability buried under 

 the Great Hoyle Bank far extending to the eastward, and over the 

 site of the early settlement or village." It appears that there was 

 here anciently a promontory, on which the Romans formed a settle- 

 ment, and which was subsequently occupied by Saxons and Normans ; 

 it was known in the middle ages by the name of the Meols j but 



