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1200 feet in one direction ; and measuring 1300 feet at right 

 angles to this I thought ought to bring me to the western 

 boundary of the Eoman city. This line came a little above 

 Berkeley Street ; but I could find no indications of a wall ever 

 having existed at this point. I did succeed, however, in tracing 

 its course along the northern and southern sides for a consider- 

 able distance, as well as the whole eastern front ; and reporting 

 this to the Director General of the Ordnance Survey, he ordered 

 Captain Hill, the chief of the Staff of Royal Engineers at 

 Bristol, to come to Gloucester, and accompany me over the 

 entire line, as far as I had traced it, with a view to its being 

 duly mapped in the next Survey of the city. The day before 

 Captain Hill came to Gloucester for this purpose, I made one 

 more examination of the part of Westgate Street at the spot 

 where, according to analogy with York and Lincoln, the western 

 wall ought to be found. Seeing Haeey Jacobs, who occupies 

 premises next to Berkeley Street, standing at his shop door, it 

 suddenly occurred to me to ask his permission to go into his 

 cellar, that I might carefully examine its walls. " What do you 

 expect to find in my cellar ?" " I am looking for the old city 

 wall ; it ought to be somewhere about here." " You wont find 

 it in my cellar ; but I'll tell you what you will find, and that's 

 a great piece of masonry that has given me no end of trouble. 

 But come and see for yourself." A lamp was brought, and in a 

 few minutes I had the delight of finding my theory supported by 

 proofs nine feet thick, in the shape of the massive buttresses 

 forming part of the Castle of the West Gate of the Eoman city of 

 Glevum, — need I say the identical piece of masonry of which its 

 most fortunate owner complained that it had given him " no 

 end of trouble !" The unconquerable hardness of the Eoman 

 mortar had compelled him to leave it, blocking up part of his 

 cellar ; or else it would long ago have been cleared away, to 

 make room for pottery of much more recent date than either 

 Samian or Upchurch ware. With this fresh clue I got into 

 daylight again, and soon traced the line of wall forward 

 under the houses on the right of Lower College Court, its 

 direction being straight into the porch of the Cathedral ; and 



