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tion, probably an outpofl to Deva. 

 Whilfl Camden was himfelf at this 

 place, an hypocauft, hewn out of the 

 iolid rock, fix yards and a quarter long, 

 five yards broad, and rather more than 

 half a yard high, was difcovered here; 

 to fome of the tiles were infcribed 

 LEG 10 XX, which feerns to point out the 

 founders *. 



The place appears to have been called 

 Caer Gawr Lie, the Camp of the Great 

 Region, the name which the Britons be-r 

 flowed on the twentieth legion to im- 

 ply it's power -f. 



On the fummit of a high rock at a 

 little diftance are the ruins of the calile. 

 Qf this the remains are but few, though; 

 fufficient to indicate that it has never 

 been a building of any great extent. 

 LelandJ fays, " The town of Hope. 



* Gibfcn'sCamtler!, p. 6SS. t Pennnnt, I, 432. 

 $ luamry, V. 38. 



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