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of his wife and two sons/ The reader will remark the omission 

 of the usual dedication to the Dii Manes : 



TITIA PINTA VIXIT ANN . XXXVIII 

 ET VAL ADIVTORI VIXIT ANN . XX 

 ET VARIOLO VIXIT ANN XV . VAL 

 VINDICIANVS CONIVGI ET FILIIS 

 F.C. 



Of the dales which descend from the north to join the Rye, 

 none are more beautiful than the narrow winding glen through 

 which, under the walls of Pickering Castle, the railway runs 

 towards Whitby. It is difficult to suppose a more pleasing and 

 romantic route than through the woody gill, shaded by lofty 

 cliffs, crowned with rugged rocks, which, under the names of 

 Pickering Dale, Newton Dale and Goadland Dale, conducts us 

 to the picturesque Vale of Esk and Port of Whitby. 



Malton was certainly an important Roman station. The 

 coins, urns, inscriptions, graves, baths, &c., sufficiently attest 

 this fact. Founded, as most of the Roman stations were, in 

 proximity to older British towns, we see here, as so often in 

 Yorkshire, a double town Old and New Malton on one side of 

 the river, and Norton on the other. Roads of Roman use at 

 least, lead westward by several villages with the suffix of ( street ' 

 to Yearsley Camp and Isurium ; southward to Eburacum, east- 

 ward by Wharram le Street to the great road to Prsetorium 

 (Bridlington). Another route (Wade's Causeway) conducted 

 northward to Dunum Sinus, near Whitby ; and we may be con- 

 fident a fifth led to the well-havened bay the KO\TTO<; euXt/ievo? 

 of Ptolemy. Round Malton in several directions are important 

 earthworks, probably not all of British construction. What 

 was the name of this great station ? Alas ! lost with the Com- 

 mentaries, if such ever existed, of Agricola Hadrian Severus ! 

 Malton was not Camulodunum that was a southern colonia : it 

 could not be Derventio, as the late Dr. Young supposes, unless 

 that was XVII. instead of VII. millia passuum from York. 



A Roman inscription dug up in 1753 is supposed to in- 



