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 m THE HISTORY Book I. : or five in length, terminating at one end upon the edge of the rocky precipice, and pointing at the other up the line of the Millgate. And there is it exprefsly mentioned as a channel even In a late record of 1422, and thence* is it exprefsly pointed up the line of the Millgate to the top Such was the fummer-camp for the Frifian garrifon of Man- cunium! Thither the garrifon removed in the beginning of our fummer, and there they refided during the continuance of it. Not that the whole body of the garrifon ever removed. Some undoubtedly remained in the- winter-ftation, as many as were fufficient to fecure it ; and thefe were the more commodioufly lodged in the abfence'of the reft. The number of thefe how- ever muft neceffarily have been the fmaller, as the ftation of the fummer was fo near to the caftrum of the winter. And the area of the former muft have been* covered, not with ftru&ures of • • • timber and ftorie, as the latter was, but with the cooler habita- tions of tents.- Thefe muft have been reared at the beginning of the fummer and previous to the removal of the Frifians to the former. r Thefe muft have been taken down at the concha- fibn of the fiimmer and pofterior to the return of the Frifians to the latter, and have been laid up during their residence at it in the little arfenal of the garrifon. And the afpe& of this caftrum muft have been nearly the fame as that of the other, the tents of the foldiers being ranged in the fame lines, the ftandards of the centuries and the vtexilla of the contubernia rifing over them, and the pavilion of the commandant the ftandard of the cohort and the temple of the garrifon rifing equally together, and tower- ing gracefully over the whole. ." Mr^Percival in Phil. Tranf. — * B. II. ch. iii. C 2.— s Sfr at the ftationjof Bfough in Derbyfhire. There, as here, the Prae- torium wis upbtf one fide and along the lofty margin of the ri- ver-bank:— * In a record kept at the collegiate church o£Man- •ichefter, entitled, the feoffment made by the feoffees to John Huntingdon warden; IV. IT