we find the luxuries of the Romans introduced into the British settlements, flues, hypocausts, stuccoed and painted walls, &c. &c. Yet not a single inscription has ever been discovered in any one of these British Villages, that can throw any positive light on the æra in which they flourished, or were deserted for a more temperate and less exposed climate.

On the declivity of the hill, which forms the Eastern side of Kingly Vale, are a number of these excavations in the chalk. They vary in depth from two to four and five feet; a bank towards the valley seems to have been raised by the chalk and flints thrown out, the mounds between them are also formed by the same cause, and there are evidently paths or causeways leading into two of them. A sketch has been taken of them by Mr. King (No. 6, plate). No attempts have ever been made to examine them, nor have there ever been, so far as we can ascertain, any relics found among them, which afford proof of their origin. The supposition, therefore, that they must have been a British Village is founded on the following facts-that these Downs were a station of the antient Britons-that in other parts of the range similar spots exist which have been carefully examined and have afforded undeniable evidence of the use to which they were put-and that setting aside this application of them, it is impossible to assign any reason whatever for their original formation.

GOODWOOD RACES

Were established in 1802. In the spring of the previous year however, a meeting was arranged by the members of the Goodwood Hunt, and the Officers of the Sussex Militia. In the Sporting Magazine for April 1801, is the following notice "the new Race Course on the Harroway, near Goodwood, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, is now completely formed for sport, and much admired by the acknowledged amateurs of the turf."

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The following appears in a newspaper published at Chichester, May 5th. 1902. the efforts of equestrian skill, is to be added the princely and almost unprecedented munificence of the Noble Founder of the Goodwood Races, in providing the new erected race stand with a collation which might be entitled a general refrigarium, for the access was as easy as the reception was elegant and hospitable,"

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"the thanks of the county in general, and of this city and its vicinity in partieular, are largely due to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, for having thus munificently and liberally instituted an establishment of most material local benefit in every point of view, both as a source of pecuniary advantage to the inhabitants, and as a means of forwarding to notice, and increasing the consequence of this western part of the county! We can only add our wish that the illustrious founder may for many years enjoy in health and happiness, this promising scion, planted by his own hand, a wish in which we shall be joined by all true Sussex Patriots."

Considerable alterations and improvements have been made in the Course at various times, but more especially in 1829-30, and it is now surpassed by none in the kingdom. To the exertions of the present Duke of Richmond the celebrity which these Races have now obtained is entirely owing, and the extraordinary increase in the value and number of the stakes, compared with former years, will sufficiently attest the high estimation in which they are held. The new Grand Stand was opened in 1830, it is an elegant and commodious building, erected from a design by G. Draper, Esq. of Chichester. It stands on an elevation, forming a terrace, finely turfed, from which an excellent view of the whole Course may be obtained; it occupies an area of one hundred and twenty feet by seventy feet, and is fifty feet high from