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Petersfield, up which he would move to Woolmer Forest 

 (reversing what Mr. Sewell describes as Vespasian's march), or 

 along the upper level of the chalk hills to Selborne or some 

 point near it, from which he might descend suddenly upon 

 the enemy in Woolmer Forest, unprepared for his approach. 

 The expressions of the orator, " te fugiens," " te post terga 

 respiciens," " incidit in tuorum manus," favour the hypo- 

 thesis of such a countermarch by Asclepiodotus; and nothing 

 can better agree with the character of the ground on which I 

 suppose the two armies to have met than the words " omnes 

 illos campos atque colles," which " teterrimorum hostium 

 corpora fusa texerunt." The dispersion of the bodies of the 

 fallen " in diversos situs tracta " agrees also with the positions 

 of the tumuli (some in groups and some isolated), which, if 

 my identification of the battle-field is correct, may perhaps 

 now cover, or formerly have covered, some of their remains. 



S. 

 Blackmoor, November 1874. 



[The following is the letter from Mr. Sewell to Gilbert White referred 

 to by Lord Selborne in his Lordship's paper. The original letter was 

 communicated to me by Algernon Holt White, Esq. T. B.] 



REV. SIR, 



OUT of a large pot of Medals (about 3 years since) which 

 were found in Wulmere Pond, I collected a series from 

 Claudius Drusus to Commodus included; that is medals of all 

 the Rom n Emp from An Dom 1 43 to 194 with those of the 

 two Faustinas and Crispina Empress of Commodus; and after 

 Commodus I found no more. Also among the rest I found 

 that of Trajan's famous stone Bridge over the Danube, below 

 Belgrade; which, if it had been found when the three Bridges 

 at London were first plann'd (viz : Westminster, London and 

 Blackfriars Bridges) would then have been of very great 



it, together with some remains of Roman weapons found at Bramdeau, a 

 few miles further north, in the same high chalky district. 



