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owners ; for not a single cohort, we learn from the Notitia, was 
stationed in territories of the Dumnonii.' (p. 24.) Whether the 
people were more submissive, which is not likely ; whether they 
considered they had more to gain by living in peace with the 
invaders ; or whether, on the other hand, the Eomans thought, 
from the nature of the country inhabited by the Dumonnii, their 
entire subjection was, if not impossible, a work of such magnitude 
that they shrunk from the attempt ; certain it is that the country 
now represented by the counties of Devon and Cornwall, with the 
immediate surroundings on the land sides, was treated in a very 
exceptional way, and the lawful inhabitants allowed to manage 
their own affairs as they pleased. It is also evident, I think, that 
the relations were of a friendly nature ; for after the outbreak in 
47, in which the Dumnonii might or might not have been mixed 
up, we do not find that they gave any trouble, but seem to have 
been satisfied with the comparative independence they were per- 
mitted to enjoy, and everything seems to prove that the relation 
between the Eoman and the antient inhabitants was long and 
peaceful. 
" The independence of the Dumnonii is further shown by an 
inscription referred to Mr. C. Eoach Smith. It would appear that 
during the building of the great wall, not only was every soldier 
compelled to lay aside his sword and armour, and become mason 
or carpenter, or perhaps both by turns, but that the British 
States were taxed for the cost, at all events in part, of this 
work. It does not, I think, follow that the inscription referred to 
proves this. It seems to me that the States mentioned, and there 
are only four — " Ctvitas Dvmnon " being the second— had done 
something in connection with the building of the wall deserving of 
special commemoration. Had there been a general taxation it 
would not have been considered worthy of this honour, and the 
four States mentioned would not have been the only ones to have 
been thus handed down to posterity. It may rather be concluded 
that the assistance given, whatever its nature might have been, was 
of a voluntary and unexpected nature, and thus thought worthy 
of honour." 
The lecturer then detailed the theories of Mr. Gordon Hills, con- 
tained in his paper on " The Measurements of Ptolemy and of the 
Antonine Itinerary, applied to the Eastern Counties of England," * 
* "Journal British Archaeological Institute.'" vol. xxxiv. p. 271. 
