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1 don't know any Part of the County of Tork that 
required fo ftrong a Guard as this Place (ftrong ir has 
been, is evident from the Plan of the Camp) ; becaufe 
it is fo fituated, that Tork y for want of this Station, 
might have been fooner furprifed, either by any foreign 
Enemies, who might have made a Defcent upon them, 
from either the Humber , or German Ocean ; or from an 
Infurre&ion of the Inhabitants of ch z Eajl-Ridmg} both 
which are by this Station fufficiently guarded againft. 
It likewife gave them an Opportunity of receiving 
and defending their Recruits, either from Rome , or 
from any other of the Southern Parts of the Ifland 5 
who could either come by Water, or crofs the River 
from out of Lincolnshire. 
As the guarding their Paftes was one ftrong Reafon for 
fixing Stations, any Perfon, by looking on and examin- 
ing the annexed Map, ( fee Tab. X.) and the Draught 
of the Camp, [fee Tab. IX.) will eafily atone View, 
fee why that Place muft be preferable for fuch a Station; 
for it is juft at the Angle where four Roman military 
W ays meet 5 fo that, by guarding fufficiently that one 
Pafs, they fecur’d all the four Roads 5 which, had they 
been ftation d either at Weight on> Godmanham , or Lon - 
desburgh y they could not with the fame Men have 
done. This will be more evident, by drawing a Line 
of the Roman Road on the Map of Torkftnre from 
Brough Ferry on the River Humber lhro' Londes - 
burgh Park to .. Malton , and from Stamford-Bridge 
to Rattrington near Spurnkead 5 and then you will 
find that the Roads crofs each other betwixt or near 
Milhnton zn&.Wartre Priory. 
Moreover the Country itfelf, by Nature, helped, 
with only little Art, to make their Camp at that 
time 
