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there is nothing by which we can show that Morus-Rex was a 
Spaniard, or that the stone itself was representative of the Spanish 
cohorts. More than this, if the argument is to hold good, we 
may the more certainly argue that the Spanish cohorts settled for 
some considerable period at Ardoch in North Britain, for they 
were clearly there after they had been at the Maryport Camp. 
There we have a sepulchral monument by the heirs of a centurion 
of the 1st Cohort of the Spaniards. The inscription is— 
Dis Manibus 
Ammonius Da 
mionis C Coh 
1 Hispanorum 
Stipendiorum 
xxvil Heredes. 
FC 
(For a fuller discussion of this question, see ‘‘The Maryport 
Camp—What was its Name?” Zvransactions, No. xii.) 
There is thus an undoubted weakness running through the 
length and breadth of this method of allocation, and till some 
better method of allocation be propounded, we must continue to 
doubt the correctness of the allocations fixed by this method. 
Time, or continuity, mst be proved ; probability is not certainty, 
and no system can be sound which tries to patch up a method to 
suit the altars. Should the altars suit the allocations arrived at by 
another method, so much the better. We must draw our inferences 
from observed facts, not seek facts to establish a theory, however 
plausible it may appear. 
But not to multiply cases,—a very simple argument might have 
shown how very unreliable this method would be likely to be. 
Suppose a cohort to have been stationed at, say Maryport. Suppose 
further, that its presence there was testified to by the erection of 
altars. Suppose yet again, that the same cohort had also been 
stationed at Papcastle, and to have testified to its presence there 
by an entry of the name of the station in a book or official list. 
Suppose yet again, that after a lapse of 1500 years some enthusi- 
