. Le London & North-Western Railway . nblane en Écosse, sont à voir exampledes travaux de terrain ou des camps romains, aussi parfaits, presque au jour le jour, que quand ils ont été façonnés par les crapules de théélégionnaires il y a dix-huit siècles. Le camp atArdoch couvre 130 hectares, et avec fossé, rampart, et prétorium pourrait accueillir environ 42,000 hommes.à Saint-Albans, qui était le Verulamium romain, une partie considérable de l'église de l'abbaye, maintenant une cathédrale, est construite de briques romaines; inthemeadows atandmai être vu des fracturations des murs de Romanmures ; Et un innIJ là, cru à la béone de l'autrefois habitée habitantingsin Angleterre,

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. The London & North-Western Railway . nblane in Scotland, are to be seen examplesof Roman field-works or camps, as perfect, almost, to-day as when they were shaped by the spades of thelegionaries eighteen centuries ago. The camp atArdoch covers 130 acres, and with ditch, rampart, and pretorium could accommodate some 42, 000 men.At St. Albans, which was the Roman Verulamium, a considerable part of the Abbey Church, now a cathedral, is built ofRoman bricks; inthemeadows athandmay be seen frag-ments of the Romanwalls ; and an innIJ there, believed to beone of the oldestinhabited dwellingsin England, mayactually have been aRoman building, forit was a boat-house by the lake which covered thesemeadows in Roman days. At Brixworth, too, north ofNorthampton, are still to be seen the remains of anactual Roman temple, though it is the only one nowexisting in the country ; and at Wellingborough, in thesame neighbourhood, was discovered a number of yearsago a wonderful old Roman town. But the most interesting relics of those early days 10. An Early Coach on the L. & N.W.R. Roman Road and Roman Town are to be found on the border of Wales. It is as if theRomans in their time had found as much difficulty insubduing the Britons of that mountain region as wasexperienced by Edward I. and other English kings.At Wellington, between Stafford and Shrewsbury, therailway passes within two miles of the base of theWrekin. The Wrekins crest of light makes a fineallusion in Macaulays poem on The Armada, butfew are familiar with the more ancient and wonderfulmemories of the spot. On the summit stands a fortifi-cation of the ancient Britons, and on the hill-slopeonce stood the largest Roman city in Britain. Thename of the hill is really Latin, though at first glance itdoes not look it. Wrekin is merely a shortening ofUrbs Iconium—the City of Iconium. After theRomans left, this great place was destroyed by thefierce Saxon heathen who overran the country, and inits stead, in the fifth century, the B

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