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•hem afrefl and of carrying the Appun Wap through them, 
whereas it had before went about them ^ but he fail’d 
in his De/igfT, and ’ewas left for one of his Glorious Suc^ 
cejjbrs the Emperor Trajan^ who after he had cleans’d the 
Fens^ caus’d a Stoue Way to be made through them, 
whereon were built Inns Vind magnificent Bridges 
for Conveyance of the Water which was in the up^ 
per Part of the Marfh, For memory of which he had 
a Monumental Stone ereded with a proper Infcription, 
by which it appears that the Way was XIX Miles in 
lengthy there being plac’d at the End of every Mile j 
a Mile-Stone^ and from thence the Way. it lelf was in ) 
fucceeding Times call’d Decennovium. I might from i 
hence take occahon to mention other Works of the i 
Romans in Italy of this kind,, in which Chijfells were { 
abfojutely necejfiary for cutting the Stones 5 but this is | 
necdlefs at prefent, and therefore I fhall only remark i 
that as Trajan was diligent about the Ways in Italy j 
and ’other PartSy To it feems he was no lefs careful I 
of; thefe Affairs in Britain. For notwithftanding feme i 
tell us that the four Great Ways in. Britain are owing to f 
Molmutius one of the Britifij Kings and Btlinus his Sonjyet I 
Mr. Camdcji and oth'^rs have Oiew’d that they are rather I 
to be attributed tojthe Romans, being repair’d and made ) 
as it were quite anew fwhereas before they were very | 
mem) hy Trajan, after he had reduc’d the Britains to > j 
Obedience. Befides which Ways he alfo made divers other • I 
Leffer.onts here, and perhaps thd^ Chiffells that have oc- i 
caiioned this Letter may be fome of thofe^ us’d by the ( 
Souldiers in his Reign, tho’ before his Time ATs of this /J 
kind had been perform'd by the Roman Souldiers, who { 
alfo forc’d the Britains to undergo the fame Drudgery ^ j 
which occafion’d them to complain to Agricola^ as ifthey . | 
were too feverely md hardly.dQ^it with. . 
