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The Situation of this Place is admirable, and the ftupen- 
dcus Works about it, thrown up for a Defence to this Sta- 
tion, and the feveral grand Roads near it, are not to bede- 
fcribed. The Town itfelf was placed on a Declivity of a 
Hill, almoft full South ; and very near its Ruins arife fome 
rapid Springs of excellent Water-, and fo copious, as, when 
joined in one Stream, turns a Mill ; from which I fuppofe 
the Name of Millington has proceeded. There was a Ifb 
lately difcover’d a Well above a Mile E. b S. from thefe 
Springs, dug thro’ the folid Rock, Twenty-fix Yards deep, 
which mufl have been a Roman Work. 
To the South-Weft there are no Ramparts thrown 
up-, but to the Eaft, North-Eaft, and due North, the 
whole Country is full of them. The Yales are all of 
them guarded by fm.all Encampments at their Angles -, the 
Veftiges of the Barracks, now vifible, are called by the 
Country People 'the Camps . Thefe were to prevent any 
fudden Surprize that Way. On the Hills, from Vale to 
Vale, fome of which are from 6 o to 90 Yards deep, and 
prodigious fteep, are thrown up Works, as Ramparts, 12 
Yards broad, and proportionably high, which join in right 
Angles with the Vallies, and ferve as a ftrong Barrier every- 
where. Whether they had any Palifadoes upon them is 
uncertain : but without them they are capable of flopping 
an Enemy •, which they had Caufe to be apprehenfive of* 
by its Neighbourhood to the German Ocean , from whence 
the Saxons gave them many Alarms. 
Dr. Burton was at the Expence to have the Whole of thefe 
Works meafur’d and plann’d out ; a Map of which has been 
exhibited to the Society (fee Tab. IX.)* but, uponmyfhewing 
a correct Copy of the Draught to Lord Burlington , his Lord- 
fhip order’d me to get the Survey of the Road leading from 
thence through his Park at Londesburghxo the Divifion into 
two added to the former Plan 5 by which a Courfe of fome 
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