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ject will easily be traced. The few notes which are subjoined he thought necessary to elucidate the passages to which they refer. He will only add in this place, from Hutchins's History of Dorsetshire, (vol. i. p. 366), what is there said of Lewesdon (or, as it is now corruptly called, Lewson): "This and Pillesdon Hill surmount all the hills, though very high, between them and the sea. Mariners call them the Cow and Calf, in which forms they are fancied to appear, being eminent sea-marks to those who sail upon the coast."

To the top of this Hill the Author describes

himself as walking on a May morning.

TO THE

RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD JONATHAN,

LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH,

WHO, IN A LEARNED, FREE, AND LIBERAL AGE,

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