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likeW'ife Baft of Eurqpe containing Poland*, Rußtr nd
« etfo fTaftarjif which iisa^ Countrythe Phmicim^ b&fog
% "an. indüftriöus ®ftH: trading People, ti^fplantedciBvMl: Goto«-
nies littbet, M ip the Portent Hare o f'the-'nak^L-Man tfaäüfe
Word! G»k 5^Ää'bd%jfptmd teib, does ’farther iliuftrate theffe
Beoplh called Brigunies refiding here, to be for a great Pirt MThris
far and'no farther Mr, Camden, /pnateeds mithe’ Anti?
qiBtiesof this nbtM Ration«; - feilt aato th& i6dwötNtoneöftfae
Place, he fays, Ptolemy ftiles iuRigodunum, and that being; boh
tupted from Ribodunum may not be unlike Ribbbchefter. It fs Ms
Opinion likewi&,y thd^divh ot &refion^Ld\fa6. Ib>fi^n^Jbe Rfc
Hgious,jiy^|f. Priel|/"ß>wh,'fprä% TtonV thd Jluh^tof^i,^ rgp
markaäelÖrl^ Wlfi(fe- might/ be Luitied by Wag»^; Eartfy-
quak-ek-, 1
-f fiiallnbw aP^Äht the ^R^dfcfrwühAnj^jfvn jQbfe£yva^ions?J
made in .this j*rS§n^-tdar^ Mien g l üpq^^^.Pj|iee^
which gave me a rieW arid different FrofpeSt o f : letters appye
what he has recited i 'The h rlFWkmrkkblelFieee of Antiqu|ty I
took Nofilieof, wästy ^ottifiraiiohrCa^id^^3c^ör--lfz7/, becaufe
Anchors have fometimesmeeri foUnd thfeieiinder Ground, with
Ringsand Nailsof-fmWVe(fm,r-Rbnidn -Phhfrk%£ a Mettallike
that of ou re^ d /T öT o ts, MthPtfie Eff^tel^df Wolves and
Flowers upon them,, and at the Bottom of fome thefe Letters
Fk5Pii3,Mii£fetioubtlefemäft be in theTirne when fomeoneofthe
Fdbfi Were PrWConfulbf Procuraft#»-Frorft Anthor-HUl rhere!gbes
a Way to Preftm and a Road to Laheaßet, where there was another
Fortification, and a Roman Wall j another Road likewife
difeCts Xü-Mdncumum^ or Manckeßer, where was a Fortrefs called
the Giants or TorqmnsCaßle, and doubtlefs that Was their Highway
to Devona or Cbeßer, where the Twentieth Legion, {filed.
Valens and ViSirix^ was fixed; Cbefler Was then a Blockade to the
Pkitains itt Wdes: Not far from this Fortification, called Anchor-
Hill' at Ribcheßer, I fäw a Common-fhoar, and a Floor com-
pofed of Roman TylöS, which abfolutely demonftrates the Ri-
■vef there Was never Navigable, for had it been fo that City
- dwwvJil : H muff
1S~— . ci h r s m r 7
ha^ beep unden ,Water,- together with g
thargount^
to -3 j*kMibemgrall Ghampaig^-r -.Near tMSSlWl fayy a Pillar
u&YSfltesh m m 'Diameter,, wwh^tters?aipon it but
tbwhffica. | | | S meafureefafed^'andnot-jat,a(Llegible: Thi sPilte
jjf of f6md
seMifMWerMsorythe $m*tks eMined-oybr th e/fflibins The
^ d j l o i h s l *eewlth’* h « e , ^ ^
the-.River, w e r e c o n e - r i f the
ViacJ¥^^omMelmpfrmn whopi’tis likely
iM a c e . by Ifqto Was calledrBaku^Brnm^ Ttkja^AMm
which laft the Eetiefs'Sfe § B m
bleV ? i ^ S f S am C ^ I j f | g in Silver ; airiongft thefe
,f? ^ da^S^ithMnrlol'ffldireveff^ theGeniud
dug up there, which
| H m ved K F P f i from thence,
E% Who married
that: nbble Family f ort'" this-Altar thefe
Wards;&m:mfcriby, ^ M a r n ^ ' fm r i^ - Thete> is another
eraM,rrafidmre not
at the fame Place'
with-CKofean the Revetfe/ and'the Hdad'of an Eteperor but
the ,-Letter too obfoire to
bable it.miylbe 6f Coafiantine the Great, from the Figure of the
Crofsappearing to'him'in the Air, with thefe Words, Sub hoe
Signa Vinks :o At the -feme Place are freqnedtly' found feveral
Pkbfe of^ Roman Urns, and Fl&wer-PotSj ktf which cbn'fidtf’d,
foly demonfirate the great Antiquity of the Place, andinthofe
Days its Magnificence, which is now but a fmall Village, tho’it
isffill laoaour’d with fevers! Noble Families that are Neighbours
tb it. But its Greatnds in thofe Days may appear farther
from the Finger of a Copper Statue, which doubtlels was
weaed for' one of their Emperors, and found amongft the
Ruines. The Romans to perpetuate’ any memorable Overthrow
of their Enemies had Three Wavs to do it, either by ere£tirw