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we fomtimes find them paved, where there was little need : which 

 I guefs might be done to exercife the Soldiers and commonpeople 

 of the Country, leaftby lying idle they fhould have grown muti- 

 nous, and affe&ed alterations in the State. But where they were 

 indeed laid through meers and low places, and neceffity compel- 

 led them to rjufeandjCwye them, we have the exaft method of 

 making them, laid us down by Statius x . 



Hicprimus labor inchoare Sulcos, 



Et refcindere limites, (sr alto , . 



Egeflu penitut cavare terras : " .__ _ \ 



Mox hau/las aliter replere foffas !.*' . l 



Etfummogremiumparare dorfo, 



Ne nutent Sola, ne maligna fedes 



Et prejfis dubium Cubile [axis. 



i. e. that they firft laid out the bounds, then dug trenches, remo- 

 ving the falfe earth : then filled them with found earth, and paved 

 them with {lone, that they might not fink or otherwife fail. 



22. Of the four Bafilical, Confular, or Pr&torian ways, or Che* 

 mini majores, I have met with but one that paffeth through this 

 County, the difcovery whereof yet I hope may prove acceptable, 

 becaufe not defenbed before, or its footfteps any where noted 

 by Sir//. Spelman,Mr. Camden, or any other Author that I have 

 read or could hear of: whereat indeed I cannot but very much 

 wonder, fince it is called by its old name at very many places 

 [Ikenildvpay~\ to this very day. Some indeed call it Icknil, fome 

 Acknil, others Hackney, and fome again Hackjngton, but all intend 

 the very hmeway, that ftretches it felf in this County from North- 

 eaft to South-weft ; coming into it ("out of Bucks) at the Parifh 

 of Chinner, and going out again over the Thames (into Berks) 

 at the Parifh of Goreing, lying within the County in manner and 

 form, and bearing to the Farijhes and Villages placed on each 

 hand, as defcribed in the Mjp prefixed to this Effay, by two {ha- 

 ded parallel lines made up of points, which I have chofe, to (hew 

 that this way is not caft up in a ridged bank,orlaid out by a deep 

 trench, as fome others are ; defcribed alfo in the Map by two con- 

 tinued parallel lines, that the Reader, or fuch as pleafe to view 

 them hereafter, may know where to expe&a bank, or trench, and 



Where nO lUch matter. , Papin.Surc. Statii Silvar.JJb.*. i viaQomitian. 



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