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forum cleared. There we find everything as at Pompeii, the 
same as the day the Romans left. The barbarians appear to 
have broken in upon them, and destroyed and devastated 
the whole. The pillars of the forum, — the bases of the 
statues of their deities, — can still be pointed out. The 
building where the ensigns of the legions were kept, — the 
remnants of the bronze statues of their gods, broken in pieces 
and flung down, — the apartments for the general and the 
staff, around the forum, — are there ; and these also a multiple 
of 3 ! The passage round the forum was twelve feet wide ; 
the rooms 18 by 18, or 12 by 12. The burial-places, of 
which there are many on the road leading to the camp, 
1 2 by 18 inches, and about twelve inches in depth. The 
roadway leading up to the camp, fifteen feet, with raised 
footway on each side. The apartments for the soldiers 
are solidly built of stone and sod. It appears clear, from 
the cUbris, that the camp had been more than once 
destroyed and re-edified. After the last of these irrup- 
tions, the earth had closed completely over it, and a 
forest grown upon it ; and it was only by chance that this 
most perfect camp has been opened out, in the nineteenth 
century, to our view. It gives a good idea of the size of 
an important "castra stativa;" occupying about twenty-two 
acres. It affords information, also, as to the extent and 
situation of their colonies. Outside the camp, and under 
the protection of their walls, there has been a settlement, or 
colony; its area about 160 acres. Some of the apartments 
of the camp have been warmed by flues ; but so much 
remains as yet uncovered, that it is difficult to trace 
the course of the flues. I give you a sketch of one. Not 
so in the colony. Here the Roman, or hot-air bath, has 
been thoroughly opened out. The furnace for heating, the 
cistern for cold water, the reservoir for hot water, the pillars 
of brick upon which it was raised, creating a hollow 
