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tho in the memory of fome perfonsyet living it was 
confiderably higher. It is called Onion hole, from 
an imaginary giant of that name, who is faid once 
to have inhabited this city ; and from whom like- 
wife the Roman coins found there have been called 
Onion penies. The breadth of the wall thro this hole, 
where it is pretty much broken, meafured now but 
ten feet 5 and being upon high ground could nor, 
-I think, have b^en a common fewer, as fome have 
imagined ; but might originally perhaps have been 
deiigned for a private pafl'age upon fome neceflary 
occafions. 
The moft valuable coin, which has been difeo- 
vered in the ruins of this antient Roman town, is 
a gold one of AlleElus in fine prelervation, and 
very remarkable ' for a peculiar attribute of the 
deity on the reverfe. The front fide reprefents 
•the head of Alleftus crowned with laurel, round 
which is this legend, -imp c allectvs p f avg. 
On the reverfe is placed the figure of Apollo with a 
radiated crown j his left hand, which holds a globe, 
has over it a whip $ his right arm is raifed in a for- 
biding pollute, and fupports a chlarnys , which crof- 
finghis bread defeends on both his Tides; at his feet 
fit two captives, whofe hands are tied behind them •- 
and the legend round it is orieN'S avg, with ml in 
the exergue (1). Thefe fcveral attributes may be found 
in 
(1) Some very skilful antiquaries have thought, that thofe letters 
on the reverfe of many coins of the lower emperours, which are 
put 
