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north ; and Clune. Clune-foreft deferves ever 

 to be remembered in Britiih annals as the 

 fcene where Caraftacus is fuppofed * to have 

 made his laft noble ftand againft the Romans. 

 Having refilled them nine years with various 

 fuccefs, and being now pufhed to extremity, 

 he fortified himfelf on a hill in this foreft. 

 Tacitus tells the ftory at length -f. Oflorius 

 led his legions againft him. The Britiih camp 

 was forced j and through treachery the gallant 

 chief was delivered to his conqueror. At 

 Rome, fays the hiftorian, the fenate confidered 

 the triumph over CaraClacus, as fplendid as 

 thofe over Syphax, and Perfes. 



Needwood-foreft, in the county of Stafford, 

 is a track of elevated country, about twenty- 

 five miles in circumference. In confequence 

 of it's elevation, it commands around it's ex- 

 tremities a great variety of diftant views. 



To the north they are terminated by thofe 

 lofty hills, which form the romantic fcenes 

 of Dovedale. But to the eaft, the country 



* See Camden on Shropflure. 



f See Tac. annal. lib. xii. cap. 33, 



Y 3 fubfiding 



