Will you allow me to submit to you some explanation of the drawing of the font at Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire, which, by the condescension of his Grace the Duke of Leeds, has been lately communicated to the Society.

I conceive that four of the compartments represent the seasons of the year. Winter is figured by an old man warming himself before a fire in a chimney. Spring, by one riding out a hawking, as would probably appear from an attentive inspection of the original. Summer, by a man reaping corn and bundling it up into sheaves; and Autumn, by a husbandman sowing seed. The other compartments exhibit the ceremony of Baptism, with the parents and sponsors.