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"ship-shape," a paper such as this. I have had to look 
into, and make extracts from, at least a hundred authors, of 
all nations and languages. In no way else, save by this 
painful process, can discrepancies be found out, and the 
truth elicited. At any rate, in calling your attention to 
these footprints of Roman occupation, I have not gone over 
trodden ground. I have brought under your notice one of 
the most remarkable camps remaining, either in Britain, 
and, as far as I know, elsewhere ; unique in its clear tracings 
of the footprints which yet are there to give us an idea of 
the position and size of the Roman tents, as they fixed them 
on their march through an enemy's country ; and remember 
that I am treating of a time when the crucifixion of J esus 
Christ was a recent event, and the year when his followers 
were first called Christians at Antioch. I have, I hope, 
done somewhat towards the settlement of that much- 
disputed point,* the whereabouts of Gessoriacum, and the 
port of the departure of Claudius ; and have also attempted 
to show there are good reasons why he should have 
landed on the Eastern Coast ; to clear up the mystery hang- 
ing over Hamond's Port; and to point out how Claudius 
could have marched from thence, which he could hardly 
have done from the South Coast, on a campaign against the 
Brigantes, and yet not have consumed more than the sixteen 
days which history allows him. I have shown how wilfully 
English authors have altered history, in order to bring 
Southward Camulodunum, to favour their own preconceived 
views and prejudices. I have given you extracts to prove 
that every ancient authority worth speaking of fixes Clau- 
* " Malgre la solution complete <le ce probleme embarrassant, et contre lequel 
avaient echoue les efforts de tant d'hommes savans il restait encore une difficulte 
qui paraissait insurmontable poui\accorder ensemble tous les auteurs anciens 
qui ont parle de Gessoriacum," &c. &c. — Geographic Ancienne des Gaides, par 
M, Le Bqron Walckrendcr. A Paris. Vol. i., p. 452. 
