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ing of wild beads, or other athletic diverfions, 
agreable to the cuftoms of thofe times. Tho at pre- 
fent no appearance of a cavern, or any other place 
proper for the reception of fuch animals, is to be 
difeover'd. 
The area of the town within the walls contains 
at prefent only corn feildsj except a fmall quantity 
of meadow land, with an antient church, and farm 
houfe, near the eaft gate, both which are marked 
in the plan with the letters e and f. The method 
taken by Mr. Stair, in order to difeover where the 
ftreets formerly lay, was by obferving for feveral 
years before harveit thofe places, in which the corn 
was hunted, and did not flourifh as in other parts.. 
Thefe were very eafily diftinguifhed in a dry rum- 
mer, and run in ftrait lines eroding one another, a« 
they are drawn in the plan. Moreover, by fpitting 
the ground, and often diging it up, he found a great 
deal of rubifh, with the plain ruins and foundations 
of houfes on each fide of thefe trafls. Whereas in 
the middle of the fquares nothing of that nature ap- 
peared, and the. corn ufually flourifhed very well. 
The ploughmen alio confirmed the fame, whofound : 
the earth harder, and more difficult to be turned up, 
in thefe tra&s and near them, than elfewhere. And 
it is further obfervable, that two of thefe ftreets, 
which feemed rather wider than the reft, lead to the 
four gates of the city, one of them runing in a di- 
rect line from the north to the fouth gate, and the 
other from the caft to the weft:, which latter mea- 
fured at leaft eight yards acrofs. The four gates are 
marked with the letter g in the plan. 
By diging likewife in different places Mr. Stair 
at length difeovered the ruins of a number of builds 
ings 
