The l^Qatural Hi/lory 
with another broad flat Hone : This Vrn I faw at a houfe in the 
Town, where 'tis ufed for a Hog-trough^ but the gla/^ had been 
broken long before, nor could I get any certain defcription of it ; 
however, I guefs it fome fuch like veffel with that defcribed a- 
bove, and placed there upon the fame or like accounts. There 
have been feveral other Z/rw^alfo taken up at divers other places, 
particularly in the old Mine at Blunds Court above-mention 'd, 
Chap. 6. §.63. at a place called Drunp/d not far from Wood- Eaton, 
but belonging, as I was told, to the Paridi of Mar/ion^ near the 
ridged way that comes from Noke ; and three in one Mr. Finches 
houfe at the Mercat-phce in Henlji^ and one in the high-way that 
leads towards the North at the Toms end, not far from Ancajilc^ 
which argues thofe places fome of the firft Roman habitations^ 
though no recorded garifons, 
63. Nor indeed is there any fuch to be found in this County, 
though it cannot but be acknowledged that Oxford k felf muft be 
a noted place, before the departure of the Romans atleaft, if the 
Roman way thither defcribed in the Map, prove fo good an ar^ 
gument to the Reader as my felf. Where by the way perhaps it 
may not be unworthy notice, that Oxford is mention'd by the Ara- 
bian Geographer, Sharif oV Edrifi^ or Adrtfi (of whofe works 
the Geographia Nuhienfis tranflatcd by Gab. Sionita^ and j^oh, Hez^ 
ronita^ is too (liortan Epitome^ by the name of e^i^c O^cfort 
withal adding,that it ftands on the fame river with London (which 
river he calls vj^isUL, Retandah "^^ 40 miles above it \ which fliews 
that Oxford was always a Town of good repute, in the remoteft 
places^ as well as /iwze5. - 
^4. As for the antiquity of the Vniverfity^ befide what was al- 
leged^. 30. of this Chapter., E think it very confiderablc what 
remains upon record in Magdalen College Library, in an ancient 
MS of Walter Burley's Fellow of Merton College^ (Tutor to the 
Famous King Edw. 3. and defervedly ftiled Dr. Profundus') upon 
the Problem [^Complexio rara quare fanior'] he has thefe words 
(which (lionld indeed have been mentioned before, Chap, 2. §. 3. 
* Perhaps written (_^tj, jj^y g Ozcfart, {hy z. tranrpofition of the Letterswhich many times oc- 
curs in words of difficult founds inftead of i^j^iySLc Oczfort. f RetcMefeems to 
be a fault of the Scribe : whereas the Author probably intended to have it read ^^/<i\._L Tdmize, or 
Idmife. f Sharif Ol' Edrifi Geografh, MS, Aral>- ^enes Rtverend. £</w. Pocock^ S.TP. & Bcckf. Cath. | 
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