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Journal." (See vols, vi., viii., x., xi.) Wilts and Dorset have 

 also been fruitful in their remains, but for an account of 

 them I must refer to Mr. Lyson's published collection, which 

 is beautifully illustrated. It is to be regretted that the 

 Bath Literary and Scientific Institution does not possess 

 a copy of Mr. Lyson's great work. In Kent, the Roman 

 Villas are thickly scattered on the line of Roman road 

 from Canterbury to London, and on the banks of the 

 Medway towards Maidstone. Many have been found in 

 Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire, but 

 Yorkshire and the Midland Counties have been but little 

 explored. Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Montgomeryshire 

 have produced some, and more may probably be found. 

 It is to be regretted that no one has yet been found 

 to bring together the scattered notices of Roman Villas 

 laid open in Britain, and to note their position in the 

 several counties where they occur. Mr. Wright has briefly 

 mentioned some of the leading discoveries, but a very in- 

 teresting work might be compiled on this subject, and a 

 veiy instructive map published, if some one would bring 

 together these different discoveries, and classify and arrange 

 the objects which have been collected in the course of ex- 

 cavation. Might not Government publish a large map, 

 reduced from the Ordnance survey, containing entries of the 

 sites of all the Roman camps, cities, roads, villas, bridges, 

 and whatever pertains to the Roman period, noting also the 

 extent of the forests at that day, which can pretty clearly be 

 ascertained ? Such a map ought to accompany the " Monu- 

 menta Historica Britannica." What the Emperor of the 

 French has lately done ought to incite us not to be outdone ! 

 Private museums in this country contain many curiosities of 

 Roman art, which have been obtained from the sites of 

 Roman Camps and Villas ; and if these could be brought 

 together under one view, in an illustrated catalogue, it would 



