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priests is still seen in the large fabric adjoining to tile church-yard.

Shortly after passing over the long bridge of Stratford, we found ourselves in a part of Wor- cestershire, which by a singular separation is di- vided from its parent county, and pushed into the southern extremity of Warwickshire.

A series of beautiful villages and rural pictures succeeded each other for six or seven miles, till we reached the pleasing little hamlet of Halford, on the road from Warwick to Stow-on-the-Wold. Close to the inn at this place runs the great Ro- man road, called the Fosse, in a direction N. N. E. and S. S. W. crossing the river at the bottom of the hill towards the latter point, and pushing on to Cirencester and Bath. Here we had it very visible in many parts, and with the assistance of our landlord, a very decent antiquary, ascertained its structure, which consisted of a layer of stones at the bottom and a stratum of gravel upon it; he had more than once had occasion to overturn its foundation in different places, and found many skeletons placed about fourteen inches under its 'lower stratum. One of them, which. he had dug up about five years ago, measured six feet three inches in height; it lay in a direction north and south, and was accompanied by the remains of a

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