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As we leave the dam, and purfue our 

 courfe along the fhores of the river, we 

 are entertained, if it be full, with fome 

 good lake-fcenes. 



On the weftern fide, juft oppofite to 

 Vicar's-hill, are the ruins of a Roman 

 camp, which the country people know by 

 the name of Buckland-ring^ tho in facl it 

 is reftangular. It gives no value to the 

 fcene; but if your curiofity lead you to it, 

 you will find it a very complete work of 

 the kind. There are many larger in England j 

 but few more perfecl. It meafures in length 

 about two hundred paces ; in breadth not quite 

 fo much j and hath been defended by three 

 ramparts, and as many ditches. The whole of 

 thefe works is intire, except the front to- 

 xvards the river, which is demolimed: but 

 in the demolition you may trace the double 

 ditches. The ramparts feem to have been 

 about twenty feet high. In the front, the 

 view is very extenfive over the channel, and 

 all the environs of the river. On the oppofite 

 fide ,the eye is carried far and wide, into the 

 foreft. 



Below the camp, runs a creek from the 

 river, where it is fuppofed the Romans ufed 

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