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Permit me, at the fame Time the Honour of af- 
furing you that I am with the greatcft Refped, 
SIR , 
Tour moft obedient humble Servant-, 
H. Baker. 
The Extrall of a Letter from Mr. Ardcron to 
Mr. Baker. 
Dear Sir , 
TN Confequence of my Promife to you I have been 
at Caftor , to view the prefetit Condition of that 
celebrated Roman Camp, whole venerable Ruins ap- 
pear there ; and I now fend you the bcft Defcription 
of it my Obfervations can furnifh out. Indeed when 
I made fuch Promife, I little thought how difficult 
a Task I had undertaken, and how cafily the moft 
skilful in thefe Matters may be miftaken, amidft 
ruinous Heaps and Veftigia nearly effaced by Length 
of Time. However, lean allure you, no Care or 
Caution has been wanting, and the plain Truth fhall 
be related with all the Exadnefs poffible. 
The Town of Cafor is at prefent in a very low Con- 
dition, containing no more than between twenty and 
thirty fmall Cottages. It ftands about four Miles 
South- weft of Norwich, and by Tradition, and fome 
learned Authors, is fuppofed to have been a confi- 
dcrable City, out of whofe Ruins Norwich took its 
Rife. Skinner fays, in his Etymologicon, “ Caftor 
“ in Com. Norf. olim VENT A 1CENORUM : 
“ ex cujus Ruin is orta eft Norwich civitas.” How- 
ever, at this Day (excepting the Camp) not the 
leaft Trace or Footftep of any-thing remarkable is left 
remaining. 
The 
