the preacher when to close his sermon and dismiss his hearers, who, there is some reason to believe, were more patient¹ of a long discourse than is the case in the present day.
   In no district in England do we meet with more of those picturesque old houses and cottages, with their whitewashed fronts set in their framework of dark-coloured squares of timber, with bold projecting gables, and large massive stacks of chimneys in the centre, to which they seem to cling for support. Nor can we fully understand how much such buildings add to the beauty of the scenery, till the eye falls upon some modern red brick house, with its slated roof, or upon that most unpicturesque of all buildings, a hop oast.
   Probably no British remains are to be found, at least they have not been recognised, within our prescribed district, though the foot of the labourer may have often struck against the celt of flint, in which his unpractised eye has seen nothing more than a common stone.² But of the first invader of our land there is a fine monument in the remains of a Roman camp, at Lingfield Marsh, close at hand, which is in some places triply, in others doubly entrenched; the banks rising occasionally to the height of sixteen or eighteen feet from the bottom of the fosse, and enclosing an area of six-and-twenty acres.³ As yet no vestiges of Roman villas have been found, with their tessellated pavements, and elaborate baths and flues, such as have been brought to light by the deep
   ¹ " Sir J. Jekyl," says Lord Dartmouth in a note to Burnet's History, " told me that he -was present at a sermon which Bishop Burnet preached at the Rolls Chapel, on the 6th November, and that when he had preached out the hour-glass, he took it up and held it in, his hand, and then turned it up for another hour; upon which the audience, a very large one for the place, set up almost a shout for joy,"—Note for Burnet's History, vol. ii. p. 439.
   ² Some fine specimens of these were lately found in a field near Reigate.
   ³ For a full description of this camp, see Mr. Beale Poste's account of it in the Transactions of the Archaeological Association.