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phragmacones of Belemnoteuthis, intermingled with Belemnites." 



Professor Morris, who supplied the list of organic remains found 

 during the excavations, 1 named a fine species of Ammonite, which 

 has hitherto been only found at Trowbridge, Ammonites Reginaldi, 

 in honour of the discoverer. Specimens of this shell, and of other 

 Oxford Clay and Kimmeridge Clay fossils from Mr. Cunnington's 

 museum were exhibited. 



The Rev. E. Peacock read a short paper on " South wick Court, 

 Cutteridge, and Brook House/'' which were to be visited on the 

 following morning : and with this the proceedings of the day termi- 

 nated. » 



SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. THURSDAY, AUG. 8th. 



On Thursday morning the Archaeologists assembled in considerable 

 numbers before the George Hotel, and proceeded in breaks and 

 carriages of various descriptions, under the guidance of the Honorary 

 Secretaries, on the first excursion. First they visited the old house 

 at Cutteridge, of which they had heard some interesting particulars 

 on the previous evening from the Rev. E. Peacock, but of which 

 but few remains now exist; the old gardens, however, and its 

 magnificent vines, whose antiquity even archseologists would find it 

 difficult to define, attracted no little admiration. From Cutteridge 

 they proceeded by Brook House to Westbury, and the road they 

 traversed was, at all events, worthy of mention ; for throughout a 

 distance of something more than a quarter of a mile, they passed up 

 the bed of a stream, between its two high banks, while the water 

 reached above the axles of the carriages ; and this not (as was at 

 first supposed) from any overflow in consequence of the late heavy 

 rains, but it was the regular ordinary condition of things, that the 

 same narrow channel should serve both for river and for road, an 

 economy of space, doubtless, highly to be commended in a working 

 neighbourhood, though a little inconvenient perhaps under certain 

 circumstances,for example in the case of a refractory or jibbing horse, 

 for there was no possibility of retreating, when once in the bed of 

 the stream ; or in the case of meeting another conveyance, arriving 



1 Idem, p. 315. 



