made tKa f5rft attempt, began to nnderminc an old Foundation ftill 
r* Sole on a Hill fide, and after they made a Imall progrefs found 
;? ccnfid^tM^ile quantity of a melted Metal, which affirlt view 
-'i-vv ^ 1 had been Silver, but upon a fecond examination it 
; vt;^ 0 more than Pewter, which difcouraged the IXn- 
dcf' . . aiiich thatthey defifted from further Enquiry.- 
paffes by this Place about a hundred yards to the 
Wcit : ioi it could not conveniently be brought through the Town 
''ith :< ^enfold charge, by reafon ol'a Brook two or three hun- 
iht South, whofe Banks are not a little uneven, and 
,1 on'd fteep Hill towards the. North makes a Paflage 
u... ' : impoffible. 
lean meec Vvitfi no certainty whether the Romans' have had a 
Bridge over iVwm at Ebcheft&?\ fq dare determine nothing as 
to that point •, but the Affirmative feems to me more reafonabie, 
both from the number of Souldiers who mult needs have'pafTed 
that way, as alio from the confiderable largenefs of this River. 
The PafFagein the Second Book o^Pto/omfs Geography, Sub 
Elgcvk & Olluiinh ad. utraq-^ Maria habitant Brigaines in quibus 
. Vrbes Epiacum^ . Vinnoviu7n^ Caturaifonitcm • Cahtum^ Ifuriuyji 
Rhigoiumiw^ Olicana^ Eborncim^ leems to perfwade me that this 
may probably ha;ve been ^//^(r^:;;^ :of the Romans^ efpecially if ic 
t'an be granted that this Author mentions only the Places in the 
Eaft ern Parts of this Province (and only Efiacinn^ if placed at Rap- 
cajlle^ m^Rhigodunim^ if at Ribchejler^ thwart this affertion. ) 
And indeed I am apt to believe x\\2ii Rtolomy begins his Enume- 
Tation of the Places among the Brigantes at the Place neareft Ua- 
drianh Wall,and has advanced in order (tho with fofne Omiflions) 
to Eboracu7n^ the chief Town in the Province : And further, the 
Modern name Ebchefler agrees as well with Epiacum as Rapcajlle 
does, for all know the Mutation of P into B to be a thing not un- 
ufual I hope this Conje£lure will not be oppofite to the Autho- 
rity of other Writers, whom Fm forry'I have not a convenience to 
confuit upon this, Point. . • 
To morrpw j intend to go view fome more Stones which I late- 
ly had an account of-, if there be any Infcriptions of value, . Pll: 
let you know the firft opportunity. lam 
S 1 R, - 
Jour moji Obliged Servant.^ 
