This chapter is very long: but as to the matter of it, it is an invaluable curiosity to the inquirers into Roman Britain. He gives us an exact and copious chorography of the whole island; its boundaries, rivers, mountains, promontories, roads, nations, cities, and towns, in the time of the Romans. It is accompanied with an accurate map of _faciei Romanæ_, as the author terms it. He gives us more than a hundred names of cities, roads, people, and the like; which till now were absolutely unknown to us: the whole is wrote with great judgement, perspicuity, and conciseness, as by one that was altogether master of his subject. We have reason to believe, he copied some memoirs wrote even in Roman times. He speaks of the warlike nation of the _Senones_, who lived in Surrey: they, under the conduct of Brennus, passed into Gaul, and over the Alpes, and besieged Rome. _Romam fastu elatam, ista incursione vastatam solo: et Rempublicam Romanam funditus evertissent; ni eam Dii ipsi, more Nutricis, in sinu quasi gestare videbantur_, &c. Again, speaking of Bath, _Thermæ, Aquæ solis quibus fontibus præsules erant Apollinis et Minervæ Numina_. Our author mentions no less than thirty-eight Roman stations, beyond the farthest _vallum_ of Antoninus; and in England innumerable cities, towns, roads, &c. altogether new to us; such as _Forum Dianæ_, a city of the _Cassii_: _Cantiopolis_: _Colonia gemina Martia_: _Theodosia_: _Victoria_: _Isinnis_ and _Argolicum_, cities in _Lincolnshire_: _ad Selinam_: _in medio_: _ad aquas_: _ad alone_: _statio Trajectus_: _ad vigesimum sc. lapidem_: _Bibracte_, a city not far from London: _ad lapidem_: _ad decimum_: and very many more. He mentions _Via Julia_: a triumphal arch in _Camulodunum_: rivers, promontories, woods, mountains, lakes, bays, ports, founders of cities, things and matters not named before in any monuments come to our hands. In _Cornwall_, he speaks of _Herculis columnæ_, and _insula Herculea_: he remarks, the country of Cornwall, abounding with metals, was formerly frequented by the Phœnicians and Greeks, who fetched tin from thence; and that the local names there retain a Phœnician and Greek turn. _De Caledonia_, he describes this highland part of Britain very particularly; their towns, mountains, promontories, &c. he speaks of the report of Ulysses coming thither, tossed by tempests, and sacrificing on the shore. This is mentioned in Orpheus’s _Argonautics_. He speaks too of altars on the sea shore, beyond Inverness, set up by the Romans, as marks and bounds of their dominion. Till now, Edenburgh had the honour of being thought the _Pterooton_, or _castra alata_ of the Romans; but our author removes it far away to the river Varar in Scotland. In _Caledonia_, though never conquered by the Romans, he gives us many names of people and towns. * * * * *