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iiistory tlie highly- coloured scenes of a romaunt, nor believe in all 
the wonderful doings of King Arthur, Sir Tristram, ^leliades, and the 
other heroes of the song-stories of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; 
but we do know that many of these fable-songs were based on still 
more ancient legends, and may not these lays be but the embodiments 
in after ages of primitive traditions of far, far remote events ? 
Through Kent there is a narrow ancient way, now known as the 
Pilgrims' Eoad, for along it our first of poets, Chaucer, made his 
" merrie motley cavalcade" to wend its way to Canterbury. People, in 
less searching times than these, believed the road went on to Corn- 
wall, and that along it Phoenician merchants brought their precious 
tin. Whether one end of this primitive way ever went tow^ards Corn- 
wall, or whether remnants of that one end may still be found at our 
British kingdom's end, this deponent saith not ; but he does believe, 
— it may be but a childish fancy, for we like to deck our childhood's 
cherished grounds with strange romantic fancies, — that its other end 
does end upon the Folkestone heights, and that only now because it 
can go no further, but whence it might have crossed the "narrow^ sea" 
before the chalk cliffs tliere ended it so abruptly. Strange it is to 
think that primitive men and mammoths miglit have walked along 
that road. The grass springs up and withers away, and the silent 
earth telleth no man's liistory. 
FOEAMINIFEEA OF THE CHALK. 
By the Editoe. 
The Foratuinifera figured in Plate XV. are some of them copied 
from D'Orbigny's ' Memoir on the Foraminifera of the Chalk near 
Paris,' and some are from drawings of Cretaceous specimens lent 
by a friend. The figures do not furnish anything like a perfect or 
consecutive series of these interesting Microzoa, though some of 
the most common forms are here depicted, and will well serve the 
purpose of drawing the attention of our correspondents and readers 
to the points of interest referred to at p. 234, No. 66. 
Professor Eupert Jones, F.Gr.S., has obliged me with the follow- 
ing notes on the figured specimens : — 
Plate XV., Fig. 1, 2. Cuistellakta rotulata, Lamarck. 
A common form of Cristellaria Calcar, Liun., sp., having but little keel, and very 
variable in this feature, as well as in the curvature and elevation of the septal lines, the 
convexity of the uuiboues, and the shape of the aperture, which may be either round or 
triangular. It is exceedingly abundant both in the fossil and the recent state, the 
largest specimens are found in strata of late Tertiary age and in the existing seas ; and 
under its various modifications it has received many difl'erent " specific " names. C. rotu- 
