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cometcy. He died in 1793, aged 20. Neither did his next brother, 

 Thomas, who died in the following year at exactly the same age. 

 But Christopher, the third son, born in 1775, was a lieutenant-colonel 

 in the army, and was father of Arthur Henry, the second Baron. A 

 memorial, I believe, of Guy Carleton, first Lord Dorchester, exists in 

 Toronto in the name of one of its streets — Carleton Street. 



Besides being a statesman and skilled in the theory of war, Sir 

 George Yonge was what our grandfathers would style an " ingenious" 

 person, a man of letters, and fond of science and archaeology. The 

 initials appended to his name under his portrait indicate that he was 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 London. In volume nine of the Archceologia, or Transactions of the 

 Society of Antiquaries of London, I find a letter addressed by him to 

 the secretary of the Society, on the subject of Roman Roads and 

 Camps. Major Hayman Rooke, a Fellow of the Society, had dis- 

 covered some Roman remains near Mansfield, in the county of Not- 

 tingham, and Sir George had suggested the probability of a Roman 

 road or camp somewhere near by. The conjecture turned out to be 

 correct, although before the search which was instituted the existence 

 of such works there had not been suspected. In a letter to Sir George, 

 Hayman Rooke justly observes that "the discovery proves your 

 superior judgment in these matters." Sir George introduces Major 

 Rooke's discoveries to the Society of Antiquaries thus (the document 

 is addressed to the secretary of the Society) : " Sir, — I transmit to 

 you, at the request of my respectable and ingenious friend. Major 

 Rooke, of Woodhouse, a small treatise which he has drawn up on 

 some Roman Roads, TumaH, Stations and Camps, which he has lately 

 traced in the neighbourhood of Mansfield, and which have not hitherto 

 been noticed." I cannot comply with his request that it might be 

 transmitted to the Society, without explaining some particulars which 

 gave rise to this treatise. When I first saw the account which he 

 sent to the Society, of a Roman villa which he had discovered near 

 Mansfield, 1 communicated to him some few sentiments of mine, on 

 which I grounded an opinion, though I was quite unacquainted with 

 the country, that this villa was probably the residence of some mili- 

 tary Roman commander, and that there was probably some Roman 

 camp or station, or some military Roman road, running near it. This 

 did not by any means appear by his answer to be the case. And yet 

 it still seemed to me to be improbable that it should be otherwise. 



