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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTi:. 20.') may meet with the same fate that the Manufactory where it was made has done ; and like the famous Cities of Troy, Cartilage, <kc. and similar to Shiikspcar's Cloud-cap't Towers «ke. The above Manufactory was carried on many years, under the firm of Mes" Crowther and Weatherby, whoso names were known almost over the World ; they employed 300 Persons ; about 90 Painters (of whom I was one), and about 200 Turners, Throwers (fcc. were employed under one Roof : the Model of the Building was taken from that at Canton in China ; the whole was heated by 2 Stoves on the outside of the l^uilding, and conveyed through Flews or Pipes and warmed tiie whole, sometimes to an intense heat, unbarable in Winter ; it now wears a miserable aspect, being a Manufactory for Turjientine, and small Tenements and like Sbakcspcar's Baseless Fabric of a Vision, ttc. Mr. Weatherby has been dead many years. Mr. Crowther is in Morden College, Blackhcath, and I am the only Person of all those employed there who annually visit him. T. Craft, 1790." ^itttqutttc^ anti SlSilailijS nf ^rt evIjibttrlT. By Mu. Franks. — Fragments of " Samian " ware, found at Bittern, Hampshire, near Southampton, the supposed site of Clausentuni. They have subsequently been presented to the British Museum. The ornaments !in relief are of unusually good design. Two marks occur — of . ni . ., [Officina Nigri, a mark commonly found in London) and MANN — the latter in large letters upon a little compartment in relief. On the former is a figure of a panther, identical with that on a Samian fragment, found in one of the Roman shafts at Ewell. Numerous Roman remains have been cliscovercd at Bittern, of which an account was given by Sir II. Englefield, in his " Walk through Southampton."'' jof two Roman urns and a wooden situla, found in the rubbish-pit at Stone, made has been given by Mr. Akerman in tho Archaeologia, vol. xxxiv. By the Rev. W. Coppaiid. — A facsimile of the inscription and interlaced ribbon ornament existing upon a sculptured stone at St. Cleer, in Cornwall, of which a representation is given by Borlase (Antiqu. of Cornw., pi. 36, ip. 396), with a dissertation at some length. It has been supposed to bear the name of Donicrt, or Dungerth, King of Cornwall, who was drowned about the year 872. The inscription was thus read by Mr. Westwood, who considered the characters as early, possibly, as the seventh century — iDOSiERT ROGAUIT PRO ANiMA. This ancient monument is noticed by Lysons. j(IIist. of Cornw. p. ccxxii.) It is described as lying upon a tumulus, near jthe base of an ancient cross, called " the other half-sLone," from a notion [that it was part of an inscribed stone, which lies by the road between JFowey and Lostwithicl.'' By the Hon. Richard Neville. — Several relics of gold and silver, dis- covered in Ireland, recently acquired at the sale of the Collections of the [Rev. Dr. Neligan, of co. Cork. They consisted of a penannular tore-ring, found at Cove, New Queenstown, co. Cork. It closely resembles the African ring, presented to the museum of the Numismatic Society by jBuUar, in the Edition of 1841. See also Brit. Mus. by Mrs. Stewart M'Naugliten. Mr. Roach Smith's Memoir, Trans. Arch. ^ A notice of the stone bearing the name Assoc, at Winchester, p. 161. The frag- of Doniert was given in Gent. Mag. 1807. VOL. VIII. E E
 * By Mu. J. Y. Akerman, Seer. Soc. Ant. — A Daguerrotype representation
 * co. Bucks (see ante, p. 9-5). A more full report of the discoveries there
 * Republished, with additions by Mr. ments liere noticed wore presented to the