SUPPOSED UPHEAVAL OF SCOTLAND. 49 
Part of the military way was discovered at Glenarbach, where the stripe of 
land is only about 300 yards from the Clyde, and the ground is about eight feet 
above high-water mark.—Stewart, Caled. Rom. p. 286. 
It is hardly necessary to observe, that all these facts are entirely incon- 
sistent with the possibility of the sea, during the occupation of this part of 
Scotland by the Romans, having stood twenty-five feet or even ten feet lower 
than it does at present. 
Roman Roads across the Forth. 
If the position of the various Roman remains, at both the east and west 
terminations of ANTONINE’s Wall, is conclusive against the idea that during 
the time of the occupation of Scotland by the Romans, the land was not twenty- 
five feet lower than now, it seems unnecessary to advert to any other facts bear- 
ing on the subject. 
But since an opportunity is afforded, I may make some corrections, though 
they are not very material, in the description given in the “ Estuary of the 
Forth,” of two Roman roads and fords, the position of which was there stated 
to be also conclusive against the same view. ‘The corrections which I have to 
make, strengthen that conclusion. 
‘The first road and ford mentioned, was one crossing the River Forth at or 
near a place called the Drip, about two miles N.W. of Stirling. This road 
led from Camelon northwards to the camp at Ardoch, and is for several miles 
traceable near Torwood. I have myself walked along it. The channel of the 
river at Drip is firm, being rocky, and the depth of water there, when the river 
is not flooded, is only about two feet. The tide now comes up to Craigforth, 
which is about half a mile below Drip, and with a fall of only four feet between 
the two points. If, therefore, the land was during the time of the Romans 
twenty-five feet lower than now, neither the Drip Ford nor any river could 
then have existed ; for the whole country west of Stirling must have been covered 
by the sea even at the lowest spring tides.* 
The Roman road north of the Drip Ford passed through Kincardine Moss, 
and was found at a depth of eight feet below the surface; of course, no such 
road could have been used, or could have been made, if the land here was 
twenty-five feet lower than at present. 
Besides the road through Kincardine Moss, another Roman road was found 
in Flanders Moss, a few miles to the westward, which is equally inconsistent 
with possibility, if the whole of this district had been covered by the sea. 
* Rev. Mr Tarr, in his paper on Peat Mosses in Perthshire, published in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. 
vol. iil. p. 276, mentions, that seventy yards of this road were traced through the moss, and was about 
twelve feet wide ; see also New Stat. Account of Parish of Kincardine. 
