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1830.-WILLIAM LLEWELLIN, OF MANGOTSFIELD. (See No. 1621.) The following lines by "J. C." on William Llewellin (or Lluelling), "the philosophic Collier of Mangotsfield," who died December 2, 1773, are from the March number of the Monthly Miscellany for 1774, p. 154. JOHN MOORE. Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water.

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He's gone! another Newton dies;
His mortal part returns to dust;
His soul ascends to range the skies,
And shine in glory with the first.
What tho' his fortune plac'd him low,
And gloomy caverns gave him meat,
'Twas his that truest bliss to know,
Which dwells but seldom with the great.

Often would his aspiring mind
Travel the wide creation o'er,

And rove thro' distant worlds on high,
His Maker's glory to explore.

But, ah! how vain his studies here,
To shew him all his soul desir'd!
Tho' much he knew, his soaring mind
To greater knowledge still aspir'd.
Amongst the glorious works of God,
With new inventions of his own,
He sought discoveries of His pow'r,
To mortal eyes before unknown.
He needs not now those helps he sought,
Those artificial* eyes he made;
No clouds there intercept his view,
No mists his prying eyes invade.
Now is that knowledge all complete
He laboured much in life to gain,
For which his nights he sleepless spent,
And exercis'd his fertile brain.

Disrob'd of all that clogs the mind,
And hinders perfect knowledge here,
He soars thro regions unconfin'd,

And sees the hand that rolls the spheres:
That hand unseen, that pow'r unknown
By mortals grov'ling here below,
That made all nature's vast machine,
And bids her wheels His guidance know.

* He was a maker of optical instruments.

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He joins th' angelic host in light,
That glorious Being to adore;
Fresh admiration and delight

Reward his labours evermore.

Shall Saturn boast the Sun's enliv’ning rays,

And Mercury be silent in his praise?

Shall distant* friends the great man's worth proclaim,
And not his native village speak his fame?

Mangotsfield, Feb. 1774.

1831. THE CASTLE DITCH, BRISTOL-The branch of the Frome extending from the east end of the Broad-weir to the Floatingharbour at the back of Castle-street, and sometimes called the Castle-moat, is, in old deeds and plans, designated the Castle-ditch. In the royal charters devising Bristol to the mayor and commonalty at a fee-farm rent, both castle and ditch were retained in the king's hands. In 1629, however, the castle and its precincts were separated from the county of Gloucester, annexed to the "county of the city of Bristol," and placed under its jurisdiction.

In a plan of Bristol, published in 1673, the Frome water is represented as flowing. freely through the Castle-ditch, which was then as open as the New-cut is now; by 1800, however, the ditch was partly covered over, as may be seen by referring to Donne's "New and Correct Plan of Bristol," issued in that year. Between 1088, when the castle is first mentioned in history, and 1800, local historians record several floods as having occurred in Bristol, but, during this period of seven hundred and twelve years, only two of them are stated to have been caused by the flood-water of the Frome. Since 1800 the covering over of the Castle-ditch has been completed, and within the last eighty-one years Bristol has suffered from six floods; namely, in April, 1808; in February, 1809; in the autumn and winter of 1875; in October, 1882; and in March, 1889. The Castle-ditch is not only covered over and its ancient bed greatly contracted, but in it a dam is placed to prevent the entrance of the Frome water into the Float. WILLIAM GEORGE.

1832.-GLOUCESTERSHIRE FOLK-LORE.-(See Nos. 69, 1200.) Mr. G. L. Gomme, the director of the Folk-lore Society, read a paper lately on "The Remains of Totemism in Great Britain," a report of which appeared in the Standard of Wednesday, April 17th, accompanied by an article thereon. On the following day a letter addressed to the editor appeared on the subject, which, lest you may not have seen it, I transcribe, as it ought to come under your notice:

Sir,-Apropos of your leading article on "Totems" I have a striking recollection of an incident that occurred some years ago in Gloucestershire. I was walking with a friend through a wood when

* In reference to the verses on the same occasion by a gentleman of Marshfield.