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point on his map, he became an object of strong suspicion to 

 the daughter of the landlord, who seemed to think he was taking 

 stock of the beer-barrels for legal purposes. In spite of his 

 attractive uniform she showed undisguised satisfaction at his 

 departure. This examination of the track of the Roman 

 wall of Gloucester required a sort of subterranean journey in 

 many parts of the city : descents into little places filled with 

 firewood and empty boxes ; clambers over coal-heaps, with 

 one's back bent double, a lamp in one hand and the end of a 

 measuring-tape in the other ; while in one of these interesting 

 spots the snarling of an invisible dog suggested that the 

 sooner we got back into daylight the better it might be for 

 our ankles. In many of the cellars only the part close to the 

 floor betrayed the presence of the wall; all above being of modern 

 brick-work. 



Passing along parallel with Berkeley Street, it reaches the 

 West Gate Castle, under Jacobs's shop, already mentioned. 

 Coming to the other side of Westgate Street, we find it running 

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

 straight for the Cathedral porch. The side of the last house 

 at the corner of CoUege Green is built upon three courses of 

 the large wall stones, matching those on my own premises. 



At the Cathedral the Eoman waU has been entirely removed, 

 to get a good foundation ; the material being used in erecting 

 the Abbey itself. Some of the great Norman pillars in the 

 nave seem to give evidence of this, in having courses of larger 

 stones in the upper part of the shafts than some that occur lower 

 down, and the dimensions of which correspond with those I find 

 in the wall. I account for this on the supposition that the demo- 

 lition of the wall was carried forward at the same time the pillars 

 were being built. As portions of the lower cotu'ses would reach 

 the masons when their work was advanced, the larger stones 

 thus furnished would come in for the upper part of it, amongst 

 the others. That Roman materials were used, is shown from 

 the presence of Roman tiles here and there, in the midst of the 

 stone-work. I remember J. D. T. Niblett pointing out to me, 

 some years ago, in the last pillar going up the nave, on the 



