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several compartments in the remaining aisle has been re¬ 
covered, and in part replaced ; and very recently there have 
been found, deposited together under the foundation of a 
wall, seven statues of the size of life, elaborately sculptured, 
and so well preserved, that the colours and gilding of the 
drapery may still be seen. At the moment of this interesting 
discovery, the Committee found themselves compelled, by 
the state of their funds, to desist from prosecuting these 
researches any further. The foundations of the Monastery, 
however, have been completely explored over the entire 
extent of the Society’s ground, and beyond it, wherever it 
was practicable to follow them ; and an accurate plan of the 
whole has been transmitted for publication to the Society of 
Antiquaries, at whose request a descriptive memoir on the 
subject has been drawn up by the Curator of Antiquities 1 of 
this Institution. In addition to the plan, general views of 
the ruins, and drawings of the sculptures and other archi¬ 
tectural details, have been furnished by the pencil of Mr. 
Nash ; and the work is so far completed, that it may be 
expected in the course of a month to be ready for delivery. 
As the expense of the excavations is to be in part defrayed 
out of the proceeds of this publication, the sale of it cannot 
be deferred ; and it is necessary that those members of the 
Society who wish to avail themselves of the advantageous 
terms on which it is in the first place offered to them, 
should not delay their application to the Secretaries. 
The researches on the site of the Abbey, and the liberality of 
contributors, have added many Coins to the Society’s cabinet, 
1 The Rev. C. W T elIbeIoved, 
