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That I may be more Exa Ct and Satisfa&ory, in whac 
I have to offer, l (hall give You an Account, I. Of the 
Place itfelf, and of the Antiquities, that are there. 
II. Of the Bones and Teeth, which are difcovered there 5 
and faid to be of fo prodigious a Bignefs. III. I (hall 
offer my Thoughts of the Matter 5 with Suhmiffion to 
Your, and Other,' better Judgments. i r 
I. The Place where the Bones were found is not Cor - 
bridge, but Colckejler , a Mile Weft of it, upon the N. 
Banks of the River Tyne: formerly a Roman Colony 5 
but, at prefent, a Field of Corn 5 nothing of Antiquity 
remaining, but fome Walls and .Rubbifn 3 which lhew 
it to have been a very large Fortrefs. Stones, which 
have been dug up, with Figures and Infcriptions upon 
them, have been All remov’d to Corbridge, which has 
rife out of its Ruins.. There, I faw Altars infcrib’d 5 
One IMP. M. AVRELIO.^. Another LEG. II. AVG- 
COH. HU. But That, which is mod Remarkable, is 
that which hands in a corner of the Church-yard, De- 
dicated to Hercules , in Old Capital, Greek Characters , 
the like to which, is not to be met with, I think, in 
any other Part of this Ifland. The Characters, are in- 
different plain * and, as I could read them, thus ; 
£>HPAl<X-€l<3 
oT TV 1 CJ -3 
c> 2 ^. Jq 0 CD j? .a. <3 
oA T 
■ - f A 
i. e. Herculi Tjrio Divina Dona, Archi-Saccrdotdlia 5 ve!, 
pr Summit m Sacerdotem offereftda. The Altar fee ms to have 
been 
