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place would be spending time in conjecture. The spot, I think, 

 could not be a Eoman camp, because it is commanded by hills 

 on two sides ; nor does it show the least traces of intrench- 

 meiits ; nor can I suppose that it was a Roman town, because 

 1 have too good an opinion of the taste and judgment of those 

 polished conquerors to imagine that they would settle on so 

 barren and dreary a waste. 



THirrroN CHDBOH. 



