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collected from the bed of the river, being 
rounded and smovtb;-but of the largest 
Size; and in some places there are ap- 
pearances of their probably having been 
connected with mortar. These mounds 
are not visible quite round the hill, but 
only where the slope is too steep to allow 
it to be brought into cultivation; besides 
tuat the materials in other parts may 
may have been removed at different pe- 
riods for other purposes. On the plain 
summit of the hill are still seen founda- 
tions of walls running in various <irec- 
tions, seemingly forming houses, streets, 
é&c. and composed of rough undressed 
stone, without lime, or mortar. Besides 
these vestiges, all over the summit are 
found breken tiles, pottery, cinders, 
bricks, &e.; and in the centre still called 
by the country people the Plaza, (square, 
or market-place), 1s observed even with 
the ground, a piece of wall five feet 
broad, and sixty-four feet long, termi- 
nating in corners well formed of stone 
and lime. In digging on this summit, 
‘quantities of regular hewn. stone are 
found, many of which have been re- 
moved and employed in building houses, 
walls, &c. in the neighbourhood. These 
are all sand stone, and have been dressed 
only with the pick and hatchet. In the 
village of Garray, are also to be seen 
water-troughs, fragments of columns, 
bases and capitals of rude grotesque 
shape and workmanship; many of them 
built up in walls; and all brought down 
from the hil of Numantia. 
As the surface is in constant culture, 
where the foundaticns permit, many 
coins are still discovered ; a few of these 
are Roman, but the greater number are 
of that sort commonly called Medallas 
desconocidas, (unknown coins) and gene- 
rally believed to be Celtiberic. About 
twenty years ago were found on the 
same hill, a mass of silver and another of 
copper, or brass, which had evidently 
been melted down. 
On the slope of the hill at the north- 
west corner, going up from the bridge 
of Garray, is a chape! much resorted to 
on account of the relics of certain mar- 
tyrs there preserved, and bearing the 
date im very rude characters, of 1231. 
In the walls of this chapel are several 
Roman inscriptions, such as one erected 
by Modestus a freedman, to his master 
Heudemius; and fragments of many 
others, m which the seulptor’s ignorance 
of the Roman letters is very évident, are 
to be met with, scattered ep and down 
the village of Garray, and its environs, 
(Te be continued. ) 
Use of the Alkaline Base in Medicine, Ke. 
(Feb. {, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N addition to the revolution which 
Mr. Davy’s late important experi- 
ments on the aikalis will probably effect 
in the science of chemistry, may we not 
also regard them as an introduction to a 
greater change in the world of fashion? 
For the power of his galvanic troughs ap- 
pears so wonderful, that we must not de- 
spair of hisdecomposing even the pretox- 
ide of carbon; or in other words, we may 
expect that he wil! be able to make dia- 
monds. Yet probably at most he could 
only succeed in forming diamond dust, as 
the diamonds at present so much in ree 
quest are crystallized carbon. Bs 
If thissupposition be deemed visionary, 
I hope the following will meet with a 
kinder reception. Is it not likely that 
the alkaline base possesses great power 
over the animal frame? Might it not su- 
persede the use of mercury in venereal 
cases? Indeed it appears to me, that 
mercury owes its influence to the great 
similarity, which it bears to this substance, 
existing as a component part of the soda 
inthe semen. Neither is it rash to af- 
firm that this metallic base might proba- 
bly be administered with success in the 
gravel, &c. where soap is frequently 
found to be beneficial. 
~ Your’s, &c. Em 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
An account of the ESTABLISHMENT Of 
PRESBYTERIAN DISSENTERS Gt HINCK= 
LEY; with aLIsT of MINISTERS, from 
their COMMENCEMENT to the PRESENT 
PERIOD, 1808. 
ENRY WATTS, of Sidney college, 
Cambridge, took his degree of 
M.A. in 1651; was presented to the rec- 
tory of Swepston, in the county of Lei- 
cester, by the parliamentary committee 
of sequestrators, on their dispossessing 
the Rev. Francis Standish. from that 
living, who with his wife and children 
were turned out of the parsonage house, 
ud was reduced to great straights. He 
died before the restoration. Mr. Watts, 
it appears, was not in possession of a 
permanent situation; for 1 1662, he was 
ejected from Swepston, having several 
children, and removed to Weddington, a 
little village in Warwickshire, where he 
lived about twenty years; and at length 
removed from thence to Barwell, in Lei- 
cestershire.. A legal. toleration being 
granted to the dissenters, he, at the re- 
quest of many inhabitants, preached 
publicly at the neighbouring oe 
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