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temples, their baths, their.. altars, their Tumuli, their military 

 ways, and other remains of their fplenddur and magnificence; 

 which will admit of a thoufand vievt's and reviews, and ftill 

 give pleafure to fuch as haye, a guft for any tjiing Roman ; 

 every, year alrrioft pre fen ting' new di'fcoveries of the wifdom, 

 contrivance, ingenuity, and elegance of that refpeclable people. 

 Many of thofe things which,. have .already come under public 

 notice, I have fet in a .new, light ;, and fuch as have. naf v appear 

 in their order under all the advantages they are entitled to. rOn 

 making the great military road between Ntwcaftle and Carlijk, 

 many foundations of Roman towns and forts -have been, turned 

 up for the fake of the ftones, many valuable fculptures* and 

 infcription* either deftroyed or fo effaced by the injudicious and 

 undifcerning labourers, that not a-; Roman feature appears; 

 others ha-ve been ; ear tied offj- and by the 9eatH of their firft pa- 

 trons have fallen- intfr .l:efe curious hands, who have, caft them 

 away as Nuga or trifles beneath notice^ The incurious hands 

 hath not even fpared.that.majeftic monument of Roman opu- 

 lence and grandeur, The Pifls Wall, one of their greateft ' 

 works, equally tlie ; wonderland -ad miration v6-' the. -learned 

 Briton and the inquiiitive-ftaahger. That work which with- 

 ftc^od 1 the (liock of .ages, was fuperior to the rage of florms and 

 ttmpeft-s, the glory, the pride of ' Northumberland^ ereded ir> 

 part at the fupplication and 'importunate 'tears of Britons , now 

 deplores its ruin by the incurious in Northumberland^ by- 



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