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Legion forward from the province of Britannia Prima, into the 

 midst of their country. We are told by another historian, 

 Ptolemy, that the city in which the 2nd Legion was placed was 

 Isca, which, as the Roman remains still existing shew, was 

 the place now known as Caerleon-on-the-Usk, a village about 

 three miles from Newport ; which then became, by virtue of its 

 military importance, the capital of the new province added to 

 the Roman Empire by the victories of Prontius, and styled 

 Britannia secunda. The boundary between Britannia Prima, 

 and this new territory, was the Severn ; and Gloucester, with 

 its bridge at Over, the immediate key to it. 



We do not learn from history that Frontinus made roads at 

 all ; but we are told that he was one of the most skilful 

 engineers of his time ; and just at that time, the custom of 

 making paved roads reached its highest development. We are 

 also told in an itinerary of distances from the various stations in 

 Britain, which seems to date back to some time in the following 

 century, that Isca Silurum (Caerleon) was a station on the Via 

 Julia. Camden concludes, from this name being given to a 

 road in the country conquered by Juliuis Frontinus, that it was 

 most likely made by, and named after, that general. However 

 that may be, it may suffice to say that the Via Julia is generally 

 represented in Roman maps as crossing the Severn at Aust, and 

 to have no link between Chepstow and Gloucester. That there 

 was a road from Bath to Aust, is unquestionable, but for the 

 same reason that it existed, there must have been one from 

 Gloucester to Caerleon. That reason was, the necessity for the 

 rapid transit of troops, both horse and foot, in case of attack on 

 the garrison of the second Legion, planted in an isolated colony 

 in the heart of the enemies' country. Common sense seems to 

 point out, that if the Romans had two large militai-y centres 

 within a day's ride of each other, they must have a road to 

 connect them. Yet, by a strange oversight, no map of Roman 

 roads which has been published in this country, gives any track 

 connecting Gloucester with Chepstow, Caerwent and Caerleon. 



A German savant, however. Dr. Htibnee, who has collected 

 with giant labour all the Roman Inscriptions which have been 



