informed, had promised to erect another, which the country wait for, or would erect it themselves. Edward's bowels are said to have been interred in the church." (p.297.)

"By easy marches I arrived a Birmingham Aug. 7, 1801; after a loss, by perspiration, of one stone of animal weight; an expenditure of forty guineas, a lapse of thirty-five days, and a walk of six hundred and one miles. As so long and solitary a journey on foot was, perhaps, never wantonly preformed by a man of seventy-eight, it excited the curiosity of the town, which caused me frequently to be stopped in the street to ascertain the fact. I shall, 'to satisfy all whom it may concern,' give the journal of the day, in the following table." (pp.339,340.)

"I have treated but little of Roman inscriptions, or of Legions, and Cohorts, for several reasons. They are all totally vanished from the Wall and Stations where they were placed. Some few have been presrved by the connoisseur, in dusty lumber-rooms, which seldom see light; but more are converted into slabs, steps, and lintels, others for viler purposes; but all neglected, and many more destroyed. The few that remain are nearly obliterated; and, were they not, they are written in half-characters, and in Latin, not easy to understand; and, being unacquainted with the Latin tongue, it might seem presumptuous in me to attempt it. Besides, with what success could I explain that about which the Learned themselves differ? And, if they could be explained, what do they amount to? only that such a regiment or company resided in a certain place, when all are equally unknown; and, to the generality of readers, nothing is more dry. When he has laboured through a parcel of miserable letters, what is he the wiser? I allow, a stone of such antiquity becomes a curiosity; but a piece of antiquity, when not understood, sinks in value; and still more, if not of moment. The hungry enquirer, who can relish a dry husk, may find in Warburton all which have been discovered in latter ages, to the number of one hundred and fifty-two; also in my friend Mr. Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia. I design this work a present to a book-seller. As it will be cheap to him, I wish it cheap to the purchaser. I would have it sweet as the apple; but, if I load it with parings, like putting garlick into his repast, it will swell the book, the price, and the disgust." (pp.323-325.)