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daughter of Marcus, set up a monument to her husband Titus 
Basidius Amarantus. It is possible enough that all these 
persons were more or less connected. I need not tell you that 
the worthiest bearer of the name of Ulpius was the great 
emperor Trajan. 
December 7th, —The Eev. Canon Baine gowe an account 
of the recent discovery of the hair of a Boman lady at York, in 
the course of which he said:— 
The chief approach to the great Boman cemetery which has 
been recently explored in part, seems to have been by a care¬ 
fully made road running to the north. The best description of 
it as to position is to call it a sort of prolongation of Barker or 
Trinity Lane, running straight through the present railway 
station, and striking the city wall some 20 or 30 yards above 
the upper corner of the cholera cemetery. At this point, across 
the deep moat, in the space between Mr. Close’s late house and 
the cholera cemetery, a Boman road was found, about twelve feet 
in breadth, and five or six in depth, made of strong concrete, 
v/hich could only be removed with difhculty. As the ground 
dips rapidly on the other side of the old lane, and as a great 
quantity of earth had been removed at some earlier period from 
this place, the road could not be traced for more than 20 or 30 
yards. It is very possible that it extended no farther in this 
direction originally. On either side of the road were discovered 
several blocks of wrought stone, which may have served for coffin 
rests, as we still see them in some of our old country lanes. 
Contiguous to this ancient way, especially on yoiu left hand as 
you go into the country, interments have been discovered in 
great abundance, but chiefly those of women and children. 
The site has been at all times somewhat elevated, and on that 
account it has been sought out. It is on the northern slope of 
this ridge that the coffin which I am about to describe was 
found. At the end of the month of May in the present year 
the workmen who were digging out the foundations for the wall 
of the booldng office of the nev/ station, came, at the depth of 
some foiu feet, to a stone coffin lying north and south. It was 
some six feet and a half in length, and nearly a foot and a half 
