the right or western side of this the ground ain falls with a very precipitous descem into a vale, watered like the glen on the left by the Simois. At the base of the third tumulus, the ruins of a thick wall, now only traced by the heap of stones which once served for its erection, may be seen, crossing the hill in the narrowest part from that monument toward the left. The whole breadth of the El, and consequently length of the wall, is not more than 200 yards.' One or two slight oversights, which we have observed in the perusal of this work, it may be proper to mention. P. 21. "The little island of Tenedos is seen from Baba, while Lemnos, which is not more distant, is not sufficiently elevated to be visible, unless while the atmosphere is clear." If we may credit the best maps, Lemnos is nearly three times the distance of Tenedos from Baba. P. 57 (note). Strabo thought that Try might be discovered somewhere in this vicinity. Whoever will take the trable to look at the view, will see that ching can be more faithful than the account of the geographer, and that the remarks of Mr. Bryant, who cites Homer to prove that the hill Callicolone lay before the city, and not nearer to Ida, ly shews that the Pagus was not the Troy of Priam, which Strabo decidedly delivers as his own sentiment, observing that the real Troy lay somewhere in the neighbourhood, an opinion equally agreeable to truth." To us Strabo appears to maintain, what he says was the common opinion, that the Pagus Iliensium was the site of ancient Troy, an opinion however which we consider to be clearly erroneous. We cannot conclude without expressing our opinion that Mr. Gell has rendered a real service to the cause of ancient literature. His splendid work is executed with equal taste and care, and the end proposed appears to have been fully attained, that of enabling those "who are interested in the subject, by a careful examination of the plates, to acquire as clear a conception of the plain and its environs, as a traveller, who is not a draughtsman, could obtain in the country itself," p. 2. The plain we regard as absolutely ascertained; the situation of the city as conjectured with great probability; the tumuli appear to be of great antiquity, and several of them were considered by the ancients as sacred to the memory of the heroes whose names they now bear. Those known by the names of Achilles, Ajax, and Protesilaus, appear most deserving of notice. CHAPTER V, BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. THE contributions during the last year, in illustration of the Topography an Antiquities of Britain, are of more than usual value. The first volume of an excellent History of the County of Surrey, by the la Mr. Manning, has made its appearance; and a reputable, though by no mean first-rate account of Gloucestershire, from the pen of Mr. Rudge. A little wor entitled a Walk through Leicester, deserves to be mentioned with praise; an Mr. Williams's Picturesque Tour in Devonshire, possesses singular merit, for the accuracy and picturesque effect of its embellishments. The fifth volume of the Beauties of England will not be found inferior to the former ones. Cheltenham and Worthing have had their respective historians, who have told us enough, and more than enough, of places, the sole importance of which arises from the casual influx of summer visitants. The "Picture of London," a useful pocket duodecimo, which we noticed in our first volume, has been puffed up into a quarto, entitiel Modern London, and has thus lost its principal value. Mr. Malkin and Mr. Evans have been employed upon South Wales, and have produced very interesting and valuable books, without interfering, in any material degree, with each other. Mr. Bingley's account of North Wales, will be consulted with advantage by those who are about to visit that delightful country. The Highlands of Scotland, from their remoteness, and the exaggerated report of their want of decent accommodation, have, by no means, received that attention from our tourists which they deserve. The last year, however, has presented us with two works relative to this part of the British dominions; the one, an anony mous and very worthless Journal of a Tour through the Highlands: the other, a Sporting Tour through the Mid-Highlands, by Col. Thornton. This latter work is interesting, from the very novelty of its main subject, and besides, contains some admirable descriptions of the country near the head of the Spey, and is both decorated and illustrated by excellent engravings, the accuracy of which is not less be commended than the execution. Among the antiquarian publications, a new volume of the Archæologia; a new edition of Dr. Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland; and the Antiquities of Gleucestershire, by Mr. Lysons, are of sterling valuc. ART. 1. The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey; compiled from the an! nest authentic Historians, valuable Records, and Manuscripts in the public ( and Libraries, and in private hands. With a Fac Simile Cpy of Domesday, sugad en Thirteen Plates. By the late Rev. OWEN MANNING, S. T. B. Rector of Pepperhar row, and Vicar of Godalming, in that County. Continued to the present time, by WIL LIAM BRAY, of Shire, Eq. Fellow and Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London.-Vol. 1. Folio. pp. Int. cvii. and 714. WE always take up a ponderous folio with great reluctance, as we feel considerable repugnance in witnessing the vanton destruction, or misapplication of printing paper. This we generally anticipate in the great folio volumes of topography: for we are well convinced that no man can useful, and engagingly, fill two, three, or four of these, as is often the case, in narrating the history of one county. As the external aspect of the volume is not very prepossessing, let us examine its interior, where we are authorized to expect something of a superior kind, when we consider that it is the united work of a Manning and a Bray; both persons of some note in the annals of antiquarianism. Of the former we shall give an account in the language of the latter, who has prefaced the volume with the following biographical anecdotes : The late reverend Owen Manning, part of whose work is here presented to the pubbek, was eminently qualified for such an undertaking, by his critical skill in the Saxon Language, by his general learning, by his social virtues, the great propriety of his defortment, and the steady discharge of his professional duties, which not only gained him the esteem but the confidence of ail, and the communications of many, from whence he collected an abundant mass of information He was for many years blessed with strong health, which defied fatigue, and he bestowed the most unwearied attention to this history (except during the four years in which he was occupied in the publication of Mr. Lye's Saxon Dictionary), till the loss of sight put a period to his labours. "It is deeply to be regretted, that he did which his friends had so long expected and not, himself, complete and publish the work desired, before that calamity had deprived him of the power to comply with their wishes. "He had formed a plan, differing in one respect from that of any preceding writer, on such subjects. He began with the Terra Regis in Domesday (or that landed property possessed by the king); and, after illustratit by a commentary, he intended to deduce the history of those particular estates to modern times. He had himself drawn a map of all the places in the conaty mentioned in that venerable record (which is given in this vei, in, and he had caused to be engraved Copper, a juc simile of the whole of it which telate to this county; he had written an introduction; he had drawn up and transcribed, in his own clear and beautiful handwriting, nearly all this part. "For the other parts of the county he had made large collections, but these are left merely in the form of notes, with the excep tion of a very few parishes, which he had begun to digest. Under these circumstances, it has fallen to the lot of one who shrinks from every, the smallest degree of comparison, to endeavour a completion of the work. All he can say, in excuse for the attempt, is, that, from an early part of his life, he had attended to the history of his native soil, to which he is bound by so many ties; that he had had opportunities of giving considerable information to Mr. Manning, of the descent of manors, &c. as well from his own collection as from the British Museum; that he never lost sight of what he, in common with every one, most anxiously wished to have received from the pen of his friend; that he has visited nearly all the churches in the county; that, on venturing to intimate his present inbeen opened to him in that very handsome tentions, the public offices of record have and liberal manner which Mr. Manning had himself experienced; and that many gentlemen of the county, and many of his professional brethren, have most readily given their assistance. Amongst the latter, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Glover, and Mr. Bryant, stand foremost for the multiplicity of their communication. "Mr. Bryant, who is preparing to the press a History of the Town aud Hundred of Reygate, in this county, did, at first, intend to go beyond those limits, and had collected many materials for that purpose, and, in the course of his researches, had obtained much information, as to other parts of the county, has liberally given to this work all that does not relate to his own intended publication, together with some copper plates which will appear in the second volume. is aware that he renders his own inability to "By detailing these advantages, the editor make sufficient use of them the more manifest; able. He has but one more excuse to offer for but, to omit the mention, would be unpardonhis presumption, which perhaps should have dent desire to serve, as far as his abilities allow, taken place of all others; that is, a very arthe widow and family of his much esteemed friend, for whose benefit this publication is to continue his health, he means to give up made. If it please God to spare his life, and all the leisure time which his numerous avocations will allow, to the prosecution of the undertaking, trespassing as little as may be on the indulgence of the subscribers. "The work is Mr. Manning's; the imperfections must be acknowledged by the editor to be his own. Mr. Manning is not answerable for any mistakes that may be found in the parts included in hooks, marked with asterisks. [**]" In a subsequent part of the preface, the editor informs us, that Mr. Manning was born August 11, 1721, and was educated in Queen's college Cambridge; mentions the several degrees which he attained, the livings to which he was successively inducted and introduces the following remarkable circumstance: "Whilst he," Mr. Manning, "was at the university, he fell sick of the smallpox, and was supposed to have been dead. His body was laid out for interment, when his father, who was at Cambridge, and had supposed him dead, went again into the room, and without seeing any cause for hope, said, I will give my poor boy another chance,' and at the same time raised him up, which almost immediately produced signs of life: proper means were used, and he was happily restored to his friends, and to the world, which has been so much benefited by his subsequent labours. He died Sept. 9, 1801, aged 80." Such are the particulars that Mr. Bray has given of the work, and of its author. It now remains for us to furnish the reader with a few hints of both, that he may be enabled to estimate the execution of the History of Surrey. This volume, however, being only a portion of that history (whose extent and termination we are not capable of ascertaining), we shall merely give a short account of it, at present, and wait its progress or completion, before we offer our decided opinion of its real or relative merit. It is dedicated by the widow of the late author, to his majesty, who has subscribed for two large paper copies. A long list of respectable subscribers follows, and we hope that the dedicator will find this increase as the work advances. In the introduction, Mr. Manning has given "a brief description of the county in general, and of the military, civil, and ecclesiastical establishments within the same." He commences with a few observations on its early inhabitants, its ancient names, and its boundaries, but has not said any thing relating to the Roman stations, roads, and other antiquities, which belong to the county, and which, according to our opinion, properly connect with, and form a part of its ancient history. Though our author has been rather fective on this head, he has endeavo to make up for it, by a particular hist and description of the rivers We Mole. The latter has excited some licity from a supposed peculiarity sinking under ground, and rising ag This fancied phænomenon has been theme of much dissertation, and provoked the wonder of credulity the following rational account wil to divest it of its fabled property. White Hill (the same probably that is "The Mole," says Camden, "comin called Box Hill), hides itself, or is rat swallowed up, at the foot of the hill he and for that reason, the place is called Swallow; but about two miles below, itt bles up, and rises again; so that the h tants of this tract, no less than the Span may boast of having a bridge that feeds flocks of sheep." From this fabulos count, plainly founded on an idea suz imagine, that the river actually disapu in by common report, a reader might be i this place-forins a channel beneath the face of the earth, and, at a certain dist rises again, and pursues its course: ground. But the truth of the matter to be this. The soil, as well under th of the river, as beneath the surface or and, by degrees, probably become to side, being of a spongy and porous tes into caverns of different dimensions, & . through certain passages, in the banks bottom, the water of the river. In or seasons, these receptacles being full, discharging their contents faster than the supplied by the river, the water of the does not subside, and the stream suffers diminution. But, in times of drought. water within these caverns being grac absorbed, that of the river is drawn on them; and in proportion to the degre drought, the stream is diminished. Inse dry seasons, the current is, in certain pl (particularly at Burford bridge, near Boxand a little lower, between that and Nor park-gate, and at that gate and Norbury dows) entirely exhausted, and the c remains dry [except here and there a st ing pool. By the bridge at Thornerett. the current is constant. At a place ca rises again in a strong spring, and after ... the Way-pool, near the turnpike-gate, but the side of the river next to Box-hill, method in which the water is thus occasion ally drawn off is visible to the observer. hath here formed a kind of circular b plied, in the ordinary state of the current about thirty feet in diameter, which is s breadth, and one in depth. This inlet be an inlet from the river, of about two fe stopped, the water in the basin is soon served to subside, and in less than an ho totally disappears; when the chasms, three hit passes off, at different depths from upper edge of the basin, may easily be ed. And, from this circumstance of ing itself occasionally to these subterrapassages, the river probably derived its ent name of the Mole." The most interesting part of the in- After the introduction, is given a fac 104 pages. The author has detailed a copious history of the ancient castle, the town, abbot's hospital, and monastery of Wherwell. In the course of this long narrative, we have many interesting particulars, and the author has described places, and related events with perspicuity, and a smoothness of diction, which are not often found in topographical histories. The town of Woking, with its manorial appendages, form the subject of dissertation for 53 pages. The account of it in Domesday book, is succeeded by a commentary on the property, and the descent of the manor, with some account of many persons into whose hands it fell. Bermondsey, being in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, is proper to be explor ed, and the author has taken adequate pains to make the subject worthy of enquiry; his account of the priory, con ventual church, St. Thomas's hospital, the schools, and the rectory, form a desirable, though rather prolix, specimen of parochial history. In the account of the parish of Rotherhithe, we are informed of the trench, said to be dug by Canute, from the wet dock, to the westward of London bridge, and a number of other interesting particulars. Merton, with the history of the priory, is very satisfactory, without being needlessly prolix. The account of Wallingford takes up only three pages, but contains some valuable comparative strictures upon that ancient station of the Romans, which Antoninus calls Noviomagus. The descent of the manor of Reygate is drawn with accuracy, and is detailed, like other manors, through various generations. The account of lord chancel lor Somers, and sir Joseph Jekyll, does credit to the abilities of Mr. Manning. There is a good description of the priory which formerly belonged to this place. The town of Kingston next engages the reader's attention, and in its varied narrative of descents, alienations, spiritualities, &c. the usual appendages to county his.. tory, the patient peruser is rewarded with much useful information. The bridge is described as the oldest on the river Thames, except London bridge, and the methods of gathering the tolls, during different periods, is curious. The account of the manor and house of Ham, with the history of its owners, is conveyed in smooth and pleasing diction. Richmond, anciently Shene, is described in the same accurate manner; and the his |