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merely. Where the Gloucester road rises beyond, the limestone 

 strata on the right present a very upheaved and contorted appear* 

 ance, similar to that on the banks of the Avon, at Clifton. After 

 breakfast, the train was taken to Newport, and a walk of three 

 miles brought the Members to Caerleon, the ancient Isca Silurum, 

 nestling beneath the Welsh hills, on the right bank of the golden 

 Usk. The station of the second Augustan legion under the 

 command of Vespasian, it was a city of no mean importance, as 

 the great amount of antiquities in the museum attests. The 

 Avails formerly enclosed about fifty acres, and were one mile in 

 circumference ; the mortar in the walls contains but little of the 

 customary pounded Roman brick, except at the angles, where it 

 occurs in the usual quantity. Under the able guidance of J. E. 

 Lee, Esq., all the points of chief interest were shoA^Ti — the amphi- 

 theatre, called King Arthur's round table ; the lofty mound the 

 site of the ancient Norman keep, whence is a glorious view of the 

 surrounding country ; the church, and the admirable museum, 

 the arrangement and management of which reflect so much credit 

 on its curator. There was but a short time to inspect the great 

 variety of Roman curiosities here collected together, and a cursory 

 glance merely could be given at altars, columns, pavements, 

 bricks, funereal urns, glass vases, Samian ware, fibulae, ornaments 

 and coins. Memory only retains a few of the more prominent — 

 an altar to Salus Regina, a votive tablet for the health of 

 Severus and liis sons, many sepulchral slabs, bricks inscribed 

 "LEG. II. AVG," coins from Claudius Caesar to Arcadius and 

 Honorius inclusive, electrotype in gold of an engraved stone, 

 representing Hercules strangling the Nemsean lion, the impression 

 in wax of a nicolo set in a ring of debased sUver, the subject 

 being Venus Victrix, portions of ornamental ribbed glass, two 

 ivory carvmgs (one a tragic mask), with holes, showing that they 

 were attached to harness or the like, and numerous other curiosi- 

 ties. The courteous and hospitable proprietor of this mine of 

 Roman antiquities invited the Members to a sumptuous lunch, 



