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larly the A may perhaps difcover the Age thdit th\% Roman 
Station flooriilied in, viz,, in Severm^ Ktign (An, Dom, 
?94) or before^ if the ^ obfervation of the Prince of our * ^''''^ --^^ 
EngUjh Antiquaries hold good, and I know none of the mo-u!Tf,%oi. 
dern Criticks that diflent from it. 
^ This obfervarion ("iays he^ .1 have made, that from the 
' Age of Scvems to that ot Gordiar^^ afid after the Letter A 
'in the In Icriptions found in this Ifland, wants the crofs 
* ftroke, and is engraved thus 
■ I*; feems to have periftied, and perhaps v^/as burnt do7/u 
,(as by rhe flag and aduft colour in foinc places may be con- 
jefturedj in fome oi the I nfurreftions of the Native Brigantes^ 
who were impatient pt Reftraint. 
Amongft the ruins were found 2 or 3 Millfiones for the 
grinding of Corn, which by the fmallnefs of the fize (20 
inches broad J) Chew that the Liomans of thofe, as well as the 
■Egyptians and Jews oi former Ages, made ufe of their Slaves 
or Captives tor that employ/ who were placed pefl melas^ , 
Exod. xi. non precedunt fed fequuntur^ hrachijs &* toto cor- 
pore trudentts, M/hac the old MSS Bibles have in refpe6t of 
Sampfon (Jodie, xvi. 2i») claujum in car cere moUrc pcmmt^ 
, our Sdxon Predeceffors render exprelly hanbcpypne. (Mr 
Thwaifs'HepL Anglo Sax.) befides this, which is entire, I 
have a fragment of another Millftone, whereon the Rows 
are yet remaining, but this being heavier, almoft asthick at 
the Circumference as the other is at the Center (tor they are 
convex on one fidej I , foppofe might be the Runner^ the 
Learned Gataker in his notes upon 47 Ifai. 2. obferves, the 
Original vVord is of the Dml form, and that the Law prohi- 
biting the taking. the MilUfone to pledge, does particularly 
mention Recel? or tliQ Rider, becaufe that lying loofe might 
the more readily be taken off, and carried away upon that oc- 
cation, and in his Annotations (which are incomparably the 
beft of thofe falOy afcr^b d to the Affembly of Divines) upoa 
Landent, v. 13. ihey took ihcyomg mm to grinds fays, the Td- 
madifis h2LXQ Si Storfi that the Chakkans made the young 
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