228 I'HILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1728. 



but being so near the surface, not above a foot, or a foot and half deep, and 

 having been ploughed over time out of mind, most part of it is ruined and im- 

 perfect. Besides many fragments of it, there was one piece entire, which was 

 30 feet long and 6 broad ; and this was extremely pretty, the colours lively, the 

 pattern or figure finely designed, as represented fig. 1, pi. 5. There are only 

 three colours, white, red, and blue; but of the middlemost, or most beautiful 

 part of it, which is but Q feet long and 3 broad, the white and red is double 

 in quantity to the blue. In the outermost part or verge of the work, there is 

 no variety of colour, being entirely Wue, and that made of much larger squares 

 than the rest. On the east and west sides this was 6 feet broad, on the north 

 only 3. The red is formed out of Roman bricks, several fragments of which 

 were found about the work; the white colour is made of the common lime- 

 stone of our country ; the blue, of the stone from Benyngton, towards Newark, 

 5 miles from this place; and these colours wear well together, and produce a 

 good effect. There were found in digging several parts of the foundations of 

 the walls that terminated this room, and seemingly foundations of other rooms 

 adjacent, which foundations were made of the common white stone of the 

 country, set on edge side by side, with here and there a bit of Roman brick. 

 The building was placed parallel with the quarters of the heavens. Some 

 human bones were found, particularly many bones of a hand, which probably 

 belonged to some unfortunate person killed in the ruins, or when the house was 

 demolished. 



Reflections on Mr. de Lisle's Comparison of the Size of Faris with London, and 

 several other Cities, printed in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences 

 at Paris for the Year \T15. By Peter Davall, of the Middle Temple, Esq. 

 N° 402, p. 432. 



Mr. de Lisle, in the account he gives of his method of making an exact 

 plan of Paris, and comparing it with London, and other cities, first shows, by 

 what means he proceeded in determining, and laying down the true situation 

 of the places in Paris: after which he explains his manner of drawing a true 

 meridian line through that city; by which he was enabled to divide it by meri- 

 dians and parallels, as is practised in a general map. 



From his comparisons Mr. de Lisle concludes, that Paris is one-twentieth 

 part larger than London, though he says he has excluded several gardens, con- 

 tained wkhin Paris, out of this mensuration, which would have made it bear 

 still a greater proportion to London. 



On rea^]^g;^.this account of Mr. de Lisle's, it immediately occurred to Mr. 

 Davall, that the method which he took of comparing the magnitudes of Paris 



