tion of which is, 'Marcus Verecundus Diogenes, Sevir or Sex Vir, of the colony of York, and who died there a citizen of the Bituriges, made these things for himself during his lifetime.' Dr. Gale, Dean of York, writing in the last century, describes this inscription as being on a stone theca or chest six feet long by three feet wide. It had then been removed to Hull, and served as a horse-trough at an inn.

On Saturday, March 17, 1877, not far from the banks of the Ouse and the new railway station, the stone coffin now in the entrance of the Museum was discovered, and on it may be read the original of this inscription: To Julia Fortunata, whose home was Sardinia, a faithful partner to Verecundus Diogenes, her husband.'

It is sad that the husband's monument has been lost sight of— probably destroyed, or these records of the loving pair might have been placed together. The mention of the home of the faithful Julia seems to suggest that the Sardinian woman pined in her barren sunless exile in the cold North. I have taken this account from the York Herald' of March 23, 1877.

The ruins of St. Mary's Abbey Church are very beautiful; enough remains of the windows to show the varied tracery; and we were deeply interested in seeing the old home of the founders of Fountains Abbey. Very little of it remains; the north wall of the nave, with its windows and a part of the west front, and the foundations of choir and chapter-house, can be traced. The chief entrance is said to have been through the Norman arch set in the Abbey wall in Marygate, and doubtless remains of the monastery exist beneath the old palace built by Henry VIII. on its ruins after the Dissolution. Lower down, near the river, is the ancient Hospitium of the abbey. We saw here some most interesting Roman and other relics discovered during the excavations for the