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to some Roruan settlement on the southern coast of 

 Britain, and, having been transported to Gaul, were con- 

 veyed overland to Marseilles, Narbonne, or some otber 

 conslderable port on the Medlterranean.* I incline strongly 

 to the oplnion of the Rev. Edmund Kell, of Southamp- 

 ton, that the Ictls of Diodorus (v. 22) is the Isle of Wight, 

 having been one of the principal places for the shipping 

 and conveyance of British products to the mouths of the 

 Seine and the Somme. There is ample reason to believe 

 that St. Michael's Mount was at that time remote from 

 the sea and surrounded by a forest. 



Having offered the preceding general observations, 

 derived chiefly from the testimonies of ancient authors, 

 and also traced the production of the Cornish tin, which 

 was the first effort of Roman mining and metallurgy in 

 Britain, I shall now endeavour to collect the evidence 

 which is furnished by remains of all kinds found upon the 

 spot. Beginning in the North of England, we shall 

 proceed southwards. 



NORTHUMBERLAND & CUMBERLAND. 



It might be expected that among the numerous and 

 varied displays of Roman power and cultivation, which 

 present themselves along the course of Hadrian's Wall 

 through Northumberland and Cumberland, counties which 

 are among the richest in the production both of coal 

 and of rnetals, not a few traces of ancient mining and 

 metallurgy would occur. As an excellent summary of the 

 facts I quote the following passage from Dr. Bruce : 



"In nearly all the stations of the line the ashes of 



* De Poilly's Reclierclies sur wie colonie Massilienne, in the Mem, de la 

 Societe d' Emidation d' Äbbeville" A.D. 1849, is an interesting treatise 

 shewing the nature of the overland commerce in ancient Gaul. 



