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The Seventh General Meeting 



absence Mr. Cunnington briefly described the peculiarities of the 

 district ; and Mr. Moore gave an account of the most remarkable 

 fossils which had been found there, as well as as a description of 

 some singular discoveries which he had lately made upon the borders 

 of Wiltshire, near Frome ; and which have recently been brought 

 before the meeting of the British Association at Oxford. It appears 

 that Mr. Moore found in a small cleft in the mountain limestone a 

 deposit of sand belonging to the triass — a series of formations 

 hitherto almost unknown in this country. The extent of the deposit 

 was only about three cubic yards, and the whole of this Mr. Moore 

 had removed to his residence at Bath, that he might give it a 

 deliberate examination. The result was, that he discovered the 

 remains of three species of mammalia, hitherto quite unknown, and 

 including a species of Microlestes, a marsupial animal allied to 

 those now found living in Australia ; and a vast quantity of the 

 teeth of many extinct species of fish and animals of the lizard tribe. 



SECOND DAY. THURSDAY, August 16th. 



An excursion was made to Liddington Castle, visiting Liddington 

 Church, Wanborough Church, and Liddington Manor House. 

 Thence to Wayland's Smith Cave, where a discussion took place as 

 to the origin of this remarkable antiquity. Thence to White Horse 

 Hill and Uffington Castle ; the Blowing Stone at Kingston Lisle, 

 and the beautiful Church at TTffington. 



The return home being late, it was nearly nine o'clock before 

 Mr. Poulett Scrope commenced his account of <( The Discovery of 

 Roman Remains at North Wraxhall." For many years past a 

 field at that place had been known as " The Coffin Field," from the 

 fact of a Roman stone coffin having been turned up in the course 

 of the tillage of the land ; and last year Mr. Scrope obtained per- 

 mission from the proprietor (Lord Methuen) to examine the 

 ground more fully. The result had been the discovery of the remains 

 of a very complete Roman Yilla, with its outbuildings, boundary walls 

 and cemeterj', entire. The hypocaust, or apparatus for hot bathing, 

 }s probably the most complete that has been discovered in this 

 §Qi;ntry, and exhibits a good example of what the hot baths of the 



