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from each other, of hewn stone, and sixty-six feet square; with intermediate casicl/a, each four yards square, to expedite communication ; and seventeen stations, where large bodies of legionaries were con- stantly in garrison, to form upon proper occasions a respectable army, whose march from one spot to another was accelleratcd by a via militarise or military way, the compactness and strength of which have enabled it to resist the elementary shocks of sixteen hundred years. The several vestiges of these ancient boundaries and earth-works may, perhaps, be best explained to you by a few lines marking their number and relative situations, as they appear at present in the places where they are best preserved.

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��"Bank. Broad Ditch.

Plain Ground

��The Stone Wall.

Plain Ground.

"bitch.

Earthen Wall. "Ditch.

��Plain Ground Via Militaris

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