The Interior Buildings. 



1C5 



camp, marks the loug-itudiual street, and passes tliroug-li the middle 

 of the praetorium ; No. 4, from the south, suppHes a reason, not 

 otherwise obvious, for the position of the main cross street ; No. 



5, the minor axis, again passes through the praetorium, proving 

 its central position; and No. G marks the street north of the 

 praetonum. Four divisions remain at the north end, balancing a 

 like number at tlie south. It will be observed also that the lines 

 numbered 7, 8, and 9 so nearly correspond with the eavesdrops, 

 that it seems probable that was intended, thus embracing- in every 

 division a subsidiary street, together with the buildings fronting 

 it on either side. 



Is it probable that all these coincidences are accidental ; or is 

 it not much more likely they are the outcome of design ? " Wher- 

 ever," says Josephus, as quoted by Gordon, " the Romans enter 



