From hence I determined to proceed to London all the way on the Roman road, which perhaps has not been so scrupulously travelled upon for this thousand years: the intent, which I executed, was to perform the whole sixth journey in Antoninus his Itinerary; of which I shall give as complete an account as can be expected, considering how totally most of the stations here are erased, and that I was resolved so far to imitate an ancient traveller, as to dine and lie at a Roman town all the way if possible, and sometimes in danger of faring as meanly as a Roman soldier: nor could I always readily say, _Longum iter hic nobis minuit mutatio crebra, Mansio sub noctem claudit ubique diem._ Add to this, that the whole was new to me; that I had almost every place to find out; that I was alone, and had no other guide than what Mr. Gale has pointed out to us, who is the first that hit upon the true notion of this road: and I doubt not but the reader’s candour will overlook the errors or imperfections of this simple narration, of what I could observe myself, and fish out from the uncouth relations of the country people, who, for one half of the way, had never heard of enquiries of this sort since any memory, and were too apt to be morose upon that occasion, thinking I had some design upon their farms in my inquisitiveness. [Illustration: 20·2ᵈ. Syfer Spring _at Caster in Lincolnshʳ. July 26. 1724. (a Roman Work.)_ _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall fe._] [Illustration: 21·2ᵈ. _Prospect of_ Crocolana _from Potter hill. Sept. 7. 1722._ A. _Brough the Roman City._ B. _Newark._ C. _the cliff by the Trent._ D. _Potter hill._ _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall sculp._] [Sidenote: _Foss_ road.] This journey proceeds from Lincoln upon the great Foss road, as it tends to the Bath quite through Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire (but most terribly defaced) till it meets with and crosses (having gone sixty miles) the great Watling-street coming from Chester, and going to Dover, at High-cross in Warwickshire: hence to London, about ninety miles more, I went upon this Watling-street, which completes that journey of the Itinerary. [Sidenote: +Crocolana.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XXI. 2d Vol.]