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And a third, No. 67, to Jupiter , by Caius Caballus Prifcus, a tribune; but no men-tion is made of the cohort.
Since I vifited this place, Mr. Senhoufe has favoured me with an account of other dif-coveries, made by the removal of the earth, that covered the reliques of this ftation :the ftreets and foot-wavs have been traced paved with (tones from the fhore, or freeft one from the quarries: the laft much worn by ufe. Many foundations of houfes ; thecement {till very ftrong ; and the plaifler on fome remains of walls appears to have beenpainted with what is now pink colour ; feveral vaults have been diicovered, one withfree-ftone fteps much ufed : fire hearths open before, enclofed with a circular wall be-hind : from the remains of the fuel it is evident, that the Romans have ufed both woodand pit coal. Rones, arid teeth of various animals ; and pieces of horns of flags, manyof the latter fawed, have been found here : alio fhells of oyfters, mufcles, whilks andfnails. Broken earthen-ware and the handle of a large veflel, marked AEL. Frag-ments of glafs vefiels and mirrors; and two pieces of a painted glafs cup, which evincesthe antiquity of that art.
An entire altar found in the fame fearch, is to be added to the preceding: three ofthe Tides are plain : the fourth has a hatchet exadlly refembling thofe now in ufe, and abroad knife, or rather clever, with which the vidims were cut up.
But the molt curious difcovery is a (tone three feet high, the top formed like a pedi-ment, with a neat fcollop (hell cut in the middle. From each fide the pediment falls aftrait corded moulding,, and between thofe, jaft beneath the fcollop, is a mutilated figure,the head being deftroyed : but from the body which is cloathed with, the Sagum, andthe bucket which it holds in one hand by the handle *, it appears to have been a Gaul , ■the only fculpture of the kind found in our iiland.
Continue my ride along the coaft, enjoying a mod beautiful profpect of the SolwayFirth, the Ituna arituariuin of Ptolemy , bounded by the mountains of Gallo way, fromthe hill of Crefel, near Dumfries, to the great and little Rofs, not remote from Kirkcud-bright .
Keep on the fhore as far as the village of Allanby : then turn to the north-eaff, rideover a low barren woodlefs traft, and difmal moors, feeing on the left Crefel in Scot-land , and on the right Skiddaw, both quite clear ; the lafl now appears of an infultingheight over its neighbours. Had the weather be,en mifty it would have had its cap; andprobably Crefel, according to the old proverb, would have fympathized:
If ever Skiddaw wears a cap,
, Crtfcl wots lull well of chat.
Dine at Wigfon, a frnall town, with fome manufactures of coarfe checks. DoctorBurn fays that the church has never been rebuilt fince the days of its founder Odard deLogis, cotemporary with Henry I About a mile or two to the right is old Carlifle,foppofed by Mr. Horfely to have been the Olenacum of the Notitia.
From Wigton the country continues very flat and barren, to a final 1 diftance of Car-• Near that city a better cultivation takes place, and the fields often appear covered
*wh linen manufactures: crofs the river Cauda, that runs through the fuburbs, ande nter the city at the Irifh gate.
Carlifie is moft plealantly fituated ; like Chefter is furrounded with walls, but in verybad repair, and kept vex*y dirty. The caftle is ancient, but makes a good appearance
a diftance : the view from it confifts of an extenfive tract of rich meadows of thiriver Eden, here forming two branches and infulating the ground: over one is a bridge
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