PH<.ENICIANS IN DEVONSHIRE. In my judgment there is nothing here on which to base any statement respecting the inhabitants of that country, and I would not be so rash as to attempt to read history into these fragments of sentences. To me it is much more likely that the inscription refers to robbers. It is well known that Bashan hail had its full share of periods of prosperity. Fourteen and a half centuries B.C. a single section of this country had "threescore cities, all of which were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalJed towns a great many" (Deut. iii, 4, 5). Eight and a half centuries B.C., Shalrnanezar II invaded Bashan and "pulled down their houses without number." Would a great Assyrian King with a powerful army have gone into this region to hunt out people who lived in caves 1 We have also the Nabathean and the Roman pariods. My view has been that the Bashan country has from the remotest times been occupied by strong and wealthy people, that the building material was always of stone, and that ill the case of Shalmanezar II 'Pulling down houses implied stone houses. The state- ment quoted from Conder I regard as without historical foundation, and furthermore, as actually contrary to history. PHCENICIANS IN DEVONSHIRE. By H. B.S. W. THE occurrence in various parts of Palestine of clusters of Dolmens, or Cromlechs, and the surviyal of a few examples of these erections in Devon and Cornwall, leads to...