its broad and elated crest, till it goes to Brigcasterton: it is composed all the way of stone, gravel, and hard materials, got near at hand: the common road leaves it intirely from Peterborough river to Brigcasterton, crossing it at Wothrop park-wall.[68] [Sidenote: +Brigcasterton.+ Ro. _town_.] [Sidenote: TAB. XIV. 2d vol.] Brigcasterton happened most convenient for a station, being ten miles from the last, or Durobrivis; but the Itinerary mentions not its name; for the distances between them, and likewise to Lincoln, impugn Mr. Camden and such as place Causennis here: however, it was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides, the river supplying its use on the other two; for it stands in an angle, and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in, as it offered itself so conveniently, then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town: it consists of one street running through its length upon the road: this great ditch and banks are called the Dikes. I saw many coins that are found here; and one pasture is called Castle-close at the corner: they say the foundation of a wall was dug up there.[69] [Illustration: 14·2ᵈ. _Prospect of_ Brig casterton _from the Hermen Street S. of the Town. 13. July 1724._ _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall sculp._] [Illustration: 20 _Colsterworth Church Lincolnshire_ Magno NEUTONO _Ecclesiam Parochiæ Ipsius Natalibus celebris Summæ Observantiæ Monumentum quam pusillum humillime consecrat Conterraneus suus Wˢ. Stukeley, 1722_ _Stukeley Fecit_] [Sidenote: +Colsterworth.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XX.] Hence the road goes by Stretton, then leaves a little on the left hand Colsterworth, highly memorable for being the birth-place of that vast genius Sir Isaac Newton, the darling of Nature, who with a sagacity truly wonderful has penetrated into the secret methods of all her great operations; of whom Lincolnshire may justly boast: and we may say of him, with Lucretius, I. _Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, & extra Processit longe flammantia mœnia mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque._[70] On the north wall of the chancel is this monument. _Heic jacent Gulielmi Walkeri particulæ obiit 1 aug. anno domini 1684. ætat. 61._ [Sidenote: +Causennis.+]