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Anyone who is acquainted with the city of Gloucester, will 

 see at a glance that the line A D corresponds exactly with 

 Eastgate and Westgate Streets ; and B C with North gate and 

 Southgate Streets. In the Roman Camp E is the quarter of 

 the General* (the Prsetorium), F the Forum, or Market, and 

 L L L L L L the posts of the Tribunes. The Tribune 

 answers to the Colonel of a modern regiment. M the quarters 

 of the Legati, or, as they would now be called, the two 

 Lieutenant-Generals of the Army Corps. 



Now where the Pretorium stands in the Polybian Camp (from 

 E to the Cross) the corresponding site begins in the City of 

 Gloucester with the Blue Coat School, and ends at the Cross. 

 Along this line have been discovered, from 1807 to 1865, lines 

 of tesselated pavement running under the present Blue School, 

 and Holmes's and Margaret's shops. Part of one of these 

 floors was removed to Bond's nursery ground ; but I fear the 

 rest has been destroyed. Another beautiful pavement was 

 found some years ago at the back of the Crypt School, at the 

 spot marked M in the Camp ; and this is preserved in the 

 bonded wine cellar occupied by Watson and Co. 



Now, looking at the extent of these pavements, and their 

 position, it is impossible to doubt that they mark the sites of 

 public buildings. The Qusestor (Paymaster) had his quarters 

 at the back of the Prsetorium ; and all the superior officers in 

 fact were lodged in the General's end of the Camp. The Gate, 

 which reckoned as the chief one, and which was known as the 

 Porta Decumana, always stood farthest from the enemy : and 

 as the enemy here must have been the Silures in Wales, we 

 see why the common soldiers had their quarters in Westgate 

 Street. More than this, the cavalry had their quarters behind 

 the infantry on each side of the street leading to the Porta 

 Prsetoria (our West Gate) ; and, exactly in accordance with this, 

 the forges of the farriers have been found behind G (i-e., between 

 G and H) in Longsmith Street and Bearland, in Gloucester. 



* Vespasian, who was afterwards Emperor, was General, and his brother 

 Sabinus Lieutenant-General, of the Second Augustan Legion, when that 

 force conquered the south of Britain, inclusive of the Cotteswold district. 



