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VI. A Letter frm.Mr. Ralph Thore^by, P.%S. ■ 
to Vr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Seer, mcernhw foml 
Roman Antiquities obJerVed in Yorkfliite. 
H$Lioured S I Ry 
Leedsy Jprsl 2^, 
T here have fome Roma^ Momme^ts been /atelv 
found amongft the Ruins upon Jdel or Echop 
MooYy but having no legible inferiptions, they are not 
worth troubling you with the Draughts of them only 
their Size feem’d ftrange to me at firlf ; that there fhould 
be Altars fo fmall, was indeed no furprize, I having one 
(infertedin th^New BritannUy p. 782.) little diderent • 
but that any other fort of Commemorative Monuments 
fhould be fo little as eighteen Inches highland only fix 
broad, was new to me, till I found others as final] tho 
of richer Materials, being Marble, in the Noble Colle- 
ftions of Chriftojfher Wren Efq; and Mr. Kjm^e ; whereas 
thefe are of a very coiirfe Stone, as Dr. Lifter h^s truly 
obferved, moil of thofe found in the North are. One 
of thefe, as appears by the Difeusy has been evidently 
o‘ne of their portable Altars 5 but' another infiead of the 
Hearth, having three intire Rolls or Wreaths ’tis ceiv 
tain wa*s never defign’d for that purpofe. ^ 
When the Veftigid of this Roman Station were firfi: 
difeovered, (o^ which fee Numb. 282 of the Philofoph. 
TranfacHons) I was ready to fancy it to have been the 
Adeltocum of the Ancients, from fome remains of the Name 
in the prefent Adle or Addy as it is, writ both in the 
Monaftic. Anglic, and fome ancient Charts in my poffefii-* 
on \ but when I was lafi: at Londony having by the fa- 
vour 
