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pofe the Queries might doj the Length of the Monfter, 
from One to the Other, they might calculate his Lon- 
gitude, to 200, or 300 Yards, as reafonably, as to 22 
Foot, The Teeth and Bones, are in fuch Quantities 5 
that, with the help of a Labourer or two, You might in 
a. kw Hours, gather a Bufhel of them, 
III. From the Account I have given, it may not- be 
unreafonable to infer : That the Altar, here Dedicated 
to the Tyrian Hercules, was very famous and much fre- 
quented : That, Oxen, and fuch like Creatures, as Bifons 
and Bonaffus, (with which the Country hereabouts did 
anciently abound: The entire Head and Horns of One, 
being lately dug up, in a marlhy Ground , refembling 
exaCtly thofe Creatures, as they are deferib’d by Gefner , 
and Others,) were Sacrificed thereon: And, that their 
Bones being All thrown together 5 and, according to 
the Superftition of thofe Times, laid under the Foun- 
dation and Pavement of the Fort, are the very fame 
Bones, Teeth, Skulls, Ribs, &c> which, by the Rivers 
wafhing away the Bank, are now difeover’d, and brought 
to Light. And, if I might be allow’d to guefs a little 
farther 5 I might think it not impoffible, That (as Erke~ 
lens in Gelderland , is Herculzs Cajira ; and Hertland in 
Cornwall, was Herculis Rromontorium , So) upon tbe Re- 
cefs of the Romans, the Saxons who fucceeded them, 
might call this Noted Station Hercul-ceaper , and by cor- 
ruption, Colceafier 5 or Colcheter, irs Modern Name. And, 
what may fomewhat confirm the Conjecture, the adja- 
cent Town of Corbridge , which, as I faid, has rifen out 
of its Ruins, is called in the Charter of H. L (whereby 
that King gave it to the Secular Canons of Carlijle , be- 
fore the EreCtion,. either of the Priory or Bifhoprick,) 
CoUrvge, and Colbnrgh , the fame as Col'ceajler : The 
Bridge, from whence it may feem to take its Denomi- 
nation, being of a much later EreCtion. That Oxen 
ufed 
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