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exposed part of the fortification. We are sorry to report that, 
in the course of the construction of a recently designed 
“ Green Eide ” through the Forest, a considerable portion of 
the western glacis has been cut away, and the original 
appearance of the rampart at that spot completely destroyed. 
The position of the camp is remarkable; and, considered 
from a military point of view, it is perhaps the most 
advantageous in the whole Forest district. It occupies the 
southern headland of an elevated plateau, many parts of 
which are densely wooded. From the southern side of the 
camp an extensive view may he had looking towards the 
south-east, bounded by the Kentish hills beyond the Thames. 
The Lea Valley to the west is shut out by the long ridge 
forming High Beech, which is higher than the ground occu¬ 
pied by the camp. At the northern angle of the camp the 
elevation is about 310 feet above the Ordnance datum. The 
ground gradually trends away towards the southern rampart, 
and then suddenly dips down to Debden Slade, a low marshy 
valley distant about 1000 feet to the south, and the level of 
which is only 160 feet above datum, showing a fall of about 
120 feet from the southern aspect of the camp, or 150 feet 
from the higher plateau ground at the northern end. From 
the western side the ground descends even more abruptly to 
form a smaller valley, the levels showing a fall of about 
70 feet. This valley falls to the south to join Debden Slade. 
From the north-west corner of the camp the higher ground 
forms a headland to this valley, and is continued for a 
distance equal to about half the length of the camp into a 
spur towards the south. This tongue of land, being some 
10 feet higher than the western rampart, and running almost 
parallel with it, may possibly have been originally included 
in the plan of the fortification; but any evidences of en¬ 
trenchment have probably suffered so much from recent 
gravel diggings, that no safe conclusions can be drawn 
therefrom. Mr. Cowper, however, thought he could trace a 
lower trenching round the head of the valley, continuing for 
some distance along the crest of the spur. 
The high plateau ground, from which this spur springs, is 
