2 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



dation, for the four principal flreets crof- 

 fing each other at right angles, ftill retain 

 the original appearance of a Roman camp. 

 Of this however there is no direct hifto- 

 rical evidence, though it is well known 

 to have been one of their military ftations, 

 and from its having been the place where 

 the twentieth Legion was chiefly quar- 

 tered, it was called Caer Legion, and Caer 

 Lleon Vawr ar ddyfr Dtvy, the camp of 

 the great Legion on the Dee. It was 

 called by the Romans Caflrum Legionis, 

 the camp of the Legion, Deva and Deu- 

 nana from the river, and afterwards Ceftria 

 from Caftrum, a camp or military flation ; 

 the Saxons gave it the name of Legan- 

 cefler and Legaceafter.* 



At different times there have been dif- 

 covered here, various remains of Roman 

 antiquity, fuch as altars, ftatues, coins, 



* Bifhop Gibforvs edition of Camden's Britannia, 

 fol. 1695. 557. 



and 



