In some pastures a little east of the place I saw a flat stone set upright by the road-side, and converted into a stile: it was a monument of some young Roman, but pretty much worn: he is robed with a _toga_, and holds a scroll in his right hand, to denote his being a scholar, perhaps a pleader, a disciple of the famous Papinian. I could not see to the bottom of it, where probably is an inscription. The man that rents the ground says it was found in the ditch, under the hedge, a little lower down. At the next stile of the same pasture is another monumental stone of an old man; for such seems to be the head cut in the _tympanum_ above. The inscription upon it is scarce legible: it was poorly cut at first, and has been thus long exposed with the face upwards; and because it is somewhat broader than the wall, and was apt to fall down, the man knocked off all one side of it: he has been courted with money and fair words to part with it, but in vain. Thus, as well as I can judge, the inscription should be read: _Dis Manibus sacrum Mertio Maximo, militum phractariorum equestori, stipendiorum decem, vixit triginta quinque annos._ There are evident signs of a Roman road from _Morbium_ to Papcastle all the way, especially over the moor. The soil all along to the west of the Cumbrian hills, between them and the sea, is sandy, with rock underneath, sometimes lime-stone, sometimes of the red stone. _Morbium_, in the _Notitia_, is said to be the station of the _numerus cataphractariorum_; and the inscription above proves it. There were six Roman castles against this western shore in Cumberland; a cohort in each took up half a legion to garrison: they are ten miles distant from each other; Mawborough, ten miles from Boulness; Elenborough; _Morbium_; another at Egremont; _Maglove_, Ravenglass. I suppose they were made by Stilico, who is celebrated for it in Claudian. _Me quoque vicinis pereuntem gentibus inquit, Munivit Stilico totam cum Scotus Hiernem Movit & infesto spumavit remige Thetis. Illius effectum curis, ne bella timerem Scotica; nec Pictum tremeres ne littore toto Prospicerem dubiis venientem Saxona ventis._ He was general to Theodosius. CASTRVM EXPLORATORVM.