Annual report. List of members.

  • Royal Society of Literature
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[1827]
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    was, that the subject related to the Judgment of Paris; a third, that it contained the Story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Winckelmann, however, and other eminent Archaeologists, think that it represents ^he Marriage of Thetis and Peleus: to this last opinion Mr. Mil- lingen accedes, and illustrates it by various arguments and a cri- tical examination of the sculptures. Other ancient Monuments, he observes, since discovered, confirm this explanation, and afford us all the certainty of which such inquiries are susceptible. Mr. Mil- lingen assigns the Portland Vase to the age of the Antonines, or at the earliest to that of Hadrian.—Bead Feb. 7th, 1827. XI.—“ A Memoir on the Vitrified Forts of Scotland.’1' By the Rev. J. Jamieson, D.D. R.A.R.S.L. To account for the present appearance of these Structures, which are peculiar to Scotland, four different theories have been conceived. The first theory, published in the Edinburgh Magazine, in the year 1787, viz. that they were formed by pouring liquid mortar between two walls of loose stones, Dr. J. regards as merely a vague conjecture, founded on vulgar tradition. For the second theory, viz. that these Forts are the remains of Volcanoes, which idea originated with Pennant, he shows that there is no foundation in their actual appearance. The third, proposed by Lord Woodhouselee, in a Memoir published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edin-
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