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size must have been from one and a half to twice its present 

 dimensions." 



No turf-clad hill or barrow would have been affected to this 

 extent, or anything like this extent, by the " long influence of 

 natural causes." 



Page 416. "Early in the course of last century this royal 

 tumulus was pierced, and the human bones and bridle-bit found 

 near the surface are held to have been the relics of some ancient 

 king, over whose body, seated, as when in life, on his horse, this 

 giant mole-hill was piled up." 



Stukeley, who is the authority for the bones and the bit, does 

 not say a word about the horse. He merely says " I bought of 

 John Fowler the bridle buried along with the monarch, being 

 only a solid body of rust." 



But enough, and to spare, of this. 



Our reviewer described Mr. Ross's book by a word generally 

 used to designate refuse material shot from a cart into out-of-the- 

 way places. It would be equally unpolite, but certainly more 

 true, to apply the same word to the article in the British 

 Quarterly Review. 



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NOTHER contribution to the " out-of-the-way places" alluded 

 to in the above article is supplied by a correspondent of the 

 Athenceum, in November last. 



It does indeed seem surprising after all the investigations at 

 Abury, so accurately made of late years by Hoare, Long, and others, 

 that a writer should venture to publish such statements as the 

 following : — 



" I decline to believe in circles and avenues. The whole district 

 teems with these stones. Take an area of four or five miles, and 

 we may count them by thousands. * * * At Clatford we have 

 the Devil's Den ; a cromlech apparently. They have been forced 



