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2 profound respect for that learned body; and also, as it gives me an occasion of testifying those sentiments to your Lordship, for the great politeness you were pleased to shew me when last in London.

Ratisbon, Feb. 21, 1796.

THIS Roman Camp, as it is called in the country about it, is situated on a high plain adjoining to a hamlet, called in the maps Barrum or Barnum, near the eastern limit of the duchy of Cleves, belonging to the king of Prussia. It is about 2 English miles W. by S. of the city of Dorsten on the river Lippe, which falls into the Rhine at Wefsl; and about a mile south of the said river, and  of a mile from the high road leading from Dorsten to Duisbourg.

The ground called the Camp is about half a mile in breadth and a mile in length, being the North-eastern corner of a very extensive heath, which continues without interruption towards the South-west, near twelve miles as far as Sterkerad and Dinslagen, and with several interruptions Westward almost to Wesel. The whole is fand intermixed with pebbles and covered with heath; there are also many bogs and marshes on it.