_Grimsdyke_ (Vol. iv. _passim_).--Your correspondent NAUTILUS asks it
there are any ancient entrenchments in England known by the name of
_Grimsdyke_, besides the one he mentions in Hants. I have to inform him
that one of the most remarkable of the _many Celtic and Druidical
remains_ on Dartmoor, in the county of Devon, is _Grimspound_, with its
dyke or ditch, a small stream running through, or just outside, its
circumvallation. He will find two very good accounts of it lately
published, one in _A Perambulation of the Ancient and Royal Forest of
Dartmoor_: by Samuel Rowe, M.A., Vicar of Crediton (published by
Hamilton, Adams & Co.); and another, in a _Guide to the Eastern
Encampment of Dartmoor_, _with a Descriptive Map_ (published by Dr.
Croker, of South Bovey).[2]
[Footnote 2: The _Guide_ is published by Holden, Exeter; and
Kirkman and Thackray, London.]
There is a good print of Grimspound in Mr. Rowe's book, who describes it
as by far the finest and most extraordinary of all the relics of this
class. Its situation is on the N.W. slope of Hamel Down, on the borders
of the parishes of Manaton (Colonel Hamilton says, _Maen-y-dun_, the
fort or inclosure of erect stones), North Bovey, and Widdecombe. Dr.
Croker says Grimspound is about 400 feet diameter; the wall inclosing
the area is formed of loose stones (granite), several of which are of
immense size: when first erected it appears to have been about twelve
feet in height. There are two entrances, N. and S., with evident marks
of a pavement. Within are many smaller circles formed by erect stones
three feet high, and in general twelve feet in diameter.
WM. COLLYNS, Surgeon.
Kenton, Devon.
_Portraits of Wolfe._--I have by me a print well known by "hearsay" to
all the admirers of Hogarth (though evidently none of _his_
performance), the print of "A living dog is better than a dead lion." It
shows a profile likeness of Wolfe, which certainly corresponds with
every other likeness I have seen of him. I never saw any other print of
it but that in my possession.
Now we are upon the subject of Wolfe's portraits, it may not be amiss to
state that in the celebrated print by Woollett, every face there was
engraved by the celebrated Ryland; for this I had the authority of my
father, who was acquainted with him.