exhaustion, causing, eventually, death: an earthenware jar is the vessel
in which to keep it in health.

(_To be concluded in our next._)

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FINE ARTS.

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CROSSES.[6]

[Illustration: Neville's Cross.]

We resume the illustration of these curious structures with two
specimens of interesting architectural character, and memorable
association with our early history. The first is Neville's Cross,
at Beaurepaire (or Bear Park, as it is now called), about two miles
north-west from Durham. Here David II., King of Scots, encamped with his
army before the celebrated battle of Red Hills, or Neville's Cross, as
it was afterwards termed, from the above elegant stone cross, erected to
record the victory by Lord Ralph Neville. The English sovereign, Edward
III., had just achieved the glorious conquest of Crecy; and the Scottish
king judged this a fit opportunity for his invasion. However, "the great
northern barons of England, Percy and Neville, Musgrave, Scope, and