Gents Mag 1746 p.358

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.358 standing monuments to perpetuate their memory, that we are at a loss which most to admire, the glory of their actions whilst alive, or their care of transmitting theme to posterity after their death. I am none of those speculative visionaries that would call the wall from its ruins, tho' in imagination only; I am sensible it would ev'n be in a manner usless in the present practice of war. But had 6 or 7000 regular forces been plac'd in the line of the wall, from Hexham to Brampton these, with the additional garrisons of Carlisle and Newcastle, and the rivers of Tyne and Eden, wou'd have effectively prevented the incursion of the rebels into England. The cavalry in the extremities, and the foot in the centre, might have united before the Highlanders cou'd get up, as the insuperable desarts on the skirts of Northumberland absolutely determined their march on leaving Jedburgh. His majesty's forces, though timely appriz'd of it, never mov'd westward 'till Carlisle had surrender'd, and ignominious as it was,'twas defended from Saturday noon 'till Friday morning. On the day after the king's troops under the marshal Wade march'd forwards to Hexham, in order to relieve us, and by that step gave the rebels two days march of them, in the prosecution of their journey to London, which had actually been accomplish'd, had not his royal highness just prevented it. P. S. In my description of the Roman wall, I have follow'd the Notitia of Pancirolus, as the most exact in the rout of the garrisons on the wall, and carefully compared it with the Itinerary of Antoninus, tho' it begins where Cambden and all other antiquaries, except Horsley, end, at the West sea, calling Tuno celum, Bowness, in place of Tinmouth, and so on. For Cambden and his adherents have made scarce a probability ev'n at conjecture with regard to them; for example Tun-ocelum, or Itun-ocelum, signifies a promontory at the mouth of the river Ituna (Eden, by Ptolemy, and all who mention it,) such as Bowness is, and not Tinmouth, which has no highland at all beside it, as Ocelum signifies. Besides, Pancirolus says it was garrison'd by the AEl. Classica, as stones found at Bowness import; now there are no stones, nor any wall carry'd within 4 miles of Tinmouth, and Cambden has not a single reason to support him, but a similitude of names, which proves nothing. Again Amboglana, Cambden translates, because of the likeness of sound, Ambleside, a place in Westmorland, above 30 miles from any part of the wall. Now Pancirolus says Amboglana was upon the wall, and garrison'd by the AElia Dacica, as twenty stones dug up there import, and as Pancirolus affirms also, and therefore must be the great fort of Burdoswald, which is capable to contain 3000 men, with very signal ruins; and their altars expressly assent to Pancirolus, and say the cohors AElia Dacica garrison'd it; and so 'tis impossible to be Ambleside any more than London;- but of this more in a proper time. I beg pardon for dissenting from so great an antiquary, but my reasons will convince every unprejudic'd person ... ...
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