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OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.

will disclose much useful infoniiation. The value of these means can scarcely be questioned, but the careful and judicious use of them must be impressed on the mind of the student, who, in his zeal after hidden treasures, may mar or ruin the most interesting points of his practical researches.

It Will not be inconsistent with this outline of my labours, nor will it less accord with the chief and laudable object of the present Journal, to place before the reader the following tables, shewing the position of the substances exposed by these means during the investigation of the remains in question in some parts of these islands.

Table I.—The relative position of the layers as they occurred in a section of the soil on the northern district of the island of Guernsey:—

I.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Turf and soil, animal bones, shells, stony rubbish.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Recent.
II.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	White sand, silted, dark coloured deposits of sand, loam, shells, portions of mill-stones, querns, bricks, glazed pottery, coins, &c.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Medieval.
III.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Stony rubbish, rolled pebbles, flints, peat, stone quoits, stone mullers, and portions of grinding-troughs, coarse bricks and tiles, bronze instruments and coins, burnt animal bones, &c.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	British, Roman, Gaulish, Celtic.
IV.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Clayey soil, stone implements, charcoal (rare), fragments of burnt clay, sun-baked pottery, portions of zig-zag borders, human bones, burnt and unburnt, stone hammers, flint arrow-heads, yellow clay, fractured pebbles, &c.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Celtic and Primeval.

Table II.—Position of substances in several other parts of the island of Guernsey, in the vicinity of churches or ecclesiastical buildings.

I.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Turf and soil, shells and animal bones, stony rubbish.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Recent.
II.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Loam and sand, gravel, bricks, pottery and tiles, clippings of slate, lime mortar, containing crushed unburnt shells, clippings of Caen stone, Purbeck marble, animal bones, coins, mill-stones (basalt), human bones, submarine peat, &c.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Medieval.
III.	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Stony rubbish, horses' bones, teeth, stone mullers, flint arrow-heads, querns and grinding-troughs, coins, bricks and tiles, Samian ware, unburnt pottery, stone implements, stone celts, and hammers, &c.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	British, Roman, Gaulish, Celtic.

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