5l,ATI"N IT^SCRIPTIOINS FOUNT) IN BRITAIN. 7 



TABLE TL 

 iStiewing for ea€h month, and for ail ranges from 1° to 30°, th« quantities to be 

 added to tiie arerage daily minimum temperature of the monlh, in order to 

 give the true mean temperature of the month. The nine upper rows will 

 serve, also, as a table of proportional parts for tenths and hundredths of & 

 degree in the range, by moving the point one or two places to the left; 



.NOTES ON Lx\TIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 



PART I- 



BY THE REV. JOHN McCAUIJ, L,L.D., 



TEESIDENT or UNIVEESITT COLLEGE, TOEOWTO, 



Read before tJie Canadian Institute, \2tk December^ 1857* 



(1.) Of the Roman remams, which are scattered over differeni; parts 

 •of Europe, there are probably none which presented so great difficul- 

 ties to the antiq^uary as certain small greenish stones of a quadrilateral 

 form, with intagliated inscriptions, in Latin, on their edges* Schmidt, in 

 his work *' Antiquitates Neomagenses" (the Antiquities of Nimiguen) 

 •seems to have been the first who directed attention to them, but he 

 vwas himself unable to decipher them, or to determine their use.. .Since 



