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ia PERTHSHIRE. 296 
in his fpeech before the battle with Acricoza, warns the Cale- 
donians of, as awaiting the vanquifhed. Corpora ipfa ac ma- 
aus, fylvis ac paludibus emuniendis, inter verbera ac contumelias 
conterunt *, 
In like manner, SEvERUus is faid to have employed a great 
part of his troops, not only in building the wall which bears 
his name, but in cutting down the woods, draining the 
marfhes, and throwing bridges over the rivers which ob{tructed 
his march into the northern parts of Britain+. But though 
in that march he muft probably have paffed over the very 
grounds now occupied by the mofles of Kincardine and Frofk, 
I am inclined to believe, that the deftruction of the forefts up- 
on the fide of the Forth, is rather to be attributed to his pre- 
deceffors, who aimed at making the wall between the Friths 
of Forth and Clyde, the limits of their empire, than to Seve- 
Rus himfelf, who withdrew his troops from the country be- 
twixt the two walls, and either ftrengthened Aprian’s wall, 
from the Tyne to the Solway Frith, or built another nearly 
in the fame direction, 
Tue Romans indeed muft have found themfelves more in- 
commoded by the forefts in queftion than by any other almoft 
in the ifland ; both becaufe of their vicinity to the Roman pro- 
vince, and becaufe the only roads by which the Romans could 
penetrate into the country poflefled by the Caledonians were 
through the carfe, and acrofs the grounds between the mofles 
of Frofk and Kincardine. 
Tue mofs of Kinnaird, which was no doubt formerly 
united to that of Frofk, is only a mile and a half diftant from 
M m2 the 
* Tacitus in Vit. AGRIc. cap. 31. 
+ EeZiigos dito» ray Karndoviav, aucdnra Medypate KE, Tas TE UAaS TAVOV, To TE EAN Howuwr, 
wet Tous ToTapous C-vywwav, Dro. Cass. Lzb. Ixxvi. cap. 13. The works here enu- 
merated were attended with fuch difficulty, that though, according to the fame hi- 
ftorian, SEVERUS was never met by the Britifh army in the field, he loft fifty thou- 
fand men in the courfe of this expedition. did. 
