A most beautiful specimen of nearly the same pattern. Fig. 2:

Another not so perfect:

An armlet, with a ring for the finger to match. Fig. 3:

Two rings for the first or second joint of a lady's finger. Fig. 4:

An armlet, of a curious twisted pattern, with a finger ring to match. Fig. 5:

A torque, evidently, from its lightness, intended for the neck of a female. Fig. 6:

Part of a ring, much rubbed, and probably broken in order to ascertain of what metal the whole collection was made; which is of British brass. Four palstaves, or celts, without sockets; three having loops for thongs, the other without; all of different patterns.

I now come to what I consider to be the most interesting of the whole collection-Fig. 7; it is of the same pattern as the Jogh-Draoch, or chain-ring of divination, discovered in Ireland, and which, Meyrick says, was worn on the third finger of the left hand, by the Archdruidthe finger still held the most sacred, and on which is placed the wedding-ring.

With all due deference to my Archæological friends, I will now risk my opinion as to those precious and truly interesting antiques. We know that from the number of oaks, yews, and other kinds of trees, which from time to time have been discovered in our once British lake, that forests were on its borders; in them, rites of Druidism were performed. British priestess, at a very early date, most valuable cist from her canoe. The knives are

perhaps, the horrid Might not, then, a have lost this then

precisely of the same pattern as those of gold found in Ireland, aud which were supposed to have been used for sacrificing the victims in those barbarous days. The torque, armlets, and rings, convince us that she was one of high rank, and the Jogh-Draoch, I conceive, gave the possessor the order of priesthood.

Some of my Archæological friends will exclaim-If this be your theory, how do you account for a priestess having in her possession the four palstaves? My reply would be, might they not have been trophies, taken from the victims she had sacrificed? Others, I am aware, do not believe that any human sacrifices were ever made in Britain; but if we give up this chief, though inhuman rite, then farewell to Druidism, which from henceforth must be considered altogether fabulous.

On the Geology of the Quantocks.

BY MR. J. H. PAYNE.

THE

Quantock Hills form part of the extensive series

of Schistose Rocks, so well known as occupying a very extended area in the counties of Devon and Cornwall, as well the extreme north-west of the county of Somerset, separated, however, from the main body of these rocks by a fertile valley. The range is about twelve miles long, by four to six miles broad, extending in a direction from north-west to south-east. The water-shed it is very difficult rightly to determine, there being no river or stream of any size. Each little valley seems to claim for itself the right to drain its own domain. We may describe it, however, as tending principally southward. Three principal heights may be noted, viz., Will's-neck, 1,270 feet; Cothelstone, 1,066 feet; and Douseboro or Danesborough, 1,022 feet, above low water mark. The Rev. David Williams, in a paper read before the British Association,* divided the whole of these rocks of the West of England

* I believe in 1836, but it does not appear in their transactions,