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this Part of the Country, and I need detain you no 
longer. Three Miles South of Grantham is Great 
'Taunton, a Village fer in a Tweet Valley, where the Be- 
ginnings of the Witham River are collected from ma- 
ny Springs a little higher up. Hard by upon the Edge 
of the Hill runs the great Roman Road call’d Hermen- 
Jireet : This Village I alferted in my Itinerary to be the 
Caujennis in Antoninus's Itinerary, which Commenta- 
tors have found Difficulty in fettling. The Terms or 
z Towns between which it is placed in IterV. with the 
Diftance of the Miles, Efficiently eftabliffi the Situati- 
on, and they are well known and acknowledged ; thus 
c Durohrivas , Gaufennim m. p. xxx. Lindum m. p. 
xx vi. for Taunton is 30 Roman Miles from c Durobri - 
va, or thePaffage of the Hermen-Jireet over the Nen- 
river above Teterborough , and z6 from Lincoln. At 
Taunton , fiace I came to live at Grantham , I have 
heard of much Antiquity being found, efpecially Mo - 
faic Tavements ; and undoubtedly it was the Station 
upon the Hermen-Jireet , between Brigcajierton iz 
Roman Miles off, and Ancajier 7, which were like- 
wife Roman Stations and wall’d about, but now their 
Names are loft. All about Taunton the Romans in- 
habited very frequent, as at Kirkjioke particularly, 
where great Quantities of Antiquities have been found ; 
likewife at Strawjion 1 have feen many Roman Coins 
dug up, in Poifeffion of my Neighbour Captain 
Hacket , who owns the Town. He fays likewife fub- 
terraneous Vaults have been found there, and near it is 
the Place where our Pavement was difcovered. Be- 
tween Taunton and Grantham a Road paffes the River 
at Salter’s Ford , this Road is called Salter's Gate , and 
much frequented. I believe it has continued ever ftnce 
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