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Chapter 2 might well be devoted to a discussion as to the 

 Founder of the Camp. 



Chapter 3 would be taken up with the Name of the station. 



Chapter 4 might treat of Medieval Maryport, as represented 

 by a History of Netherhall. 



Chapter 5 would comprise the Rise and Progress of our 

 Modern Maryport. 



Chapter i, I have already dealt with fully, whilst Chapters 4 

 and 5 have been touched on in a brief sort of way. With regard 

 to Chapter 3, a highly interesting, though, at the same time a most 

 intricate subject, requires treatment. Many of our leading anti- 

 quarians give the name as Axelodunum ; but opinion upon the 

 subject is by no means unanimous. 



Chapter 2 forms the subject for to-night's consideration ; and I 

 think that I may anticipate the conclusions to which I have 

 arrived, viz., that Agricola was founder of the Camp — a Camp, the 

 position of which is so admirably chosen, apd its treasures the 

 envy of all lovers of antiquity. To us Agricola appears as a man 

 amongst men — one who dared to be virtuous when to be so was 

 looked upon as almost a crime ; a wise ruler, a kind friend, a 

 devoted husband, a loving father, a giant among the famous in 

 war ; — well may we wish to claim such a man as the founder of 

 our Camp. Of course it is not my present intention to treat 

 exhaustively of his life and character; but I shall confine myself 

 to bringing out such points as will be useful in the consideration of 

 the question before us, basing my argument in the main upon the 

 statements of Tacitus the historian, and the son-in-law of Agricola. 



Cnseus Julius Agricola was a native of the Roman colony of 

 Forojulium, (near the present Toulon,) in the S.E. of Gaul, being 

 born A.D. 40. His father, Julius Grgecinus, was celebrated for 

 his proficiency in eloquence and philosophy, and by these qualifi- 

 cations drew upon himself the enmity of the Emperor. Seneca 

 says of him, " If we need the example of a great and exalted mind 

 let us imitate Julius Grtecinus, that excellent man whom Caius 



