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construction to have been if such a purely military camp was 

 required in the neighbourhood j but this, from its construction, 

 Poundbury could not have been. 



Dorchester, however, in its plan has much in common with the 

 military camp. It reveals its military origin and the hand of a 

 military architect. The South-street answers to the Pretorian-street, 

 the High-street to the Via Principalis. There is no reason to 

 doubt that the Arx itself stood on the Castle Hill, the barracks of 

 the soldiers between it and the walls ; the Koman remains found 

 near there by Mr. Hogg and others have very much that character. 



