_For the Dover Road is actually the initial limb of the Watling Street: that prehistoric British trackway adopted by the Romans and by them engineered into a road; and it would seem that those Roman engineers, instructed by the Imperial authorities, considered rather the military and strategic needs of those times than those of_ LONDINIUM; _for London was not on the direct road they made; and it was only at a later date, when it was grown commercially, they constructed an alternative route that served it._ _It would be rash to declare that more history has been enacted on this road than on any other, although we may suspect it; but certainly history is more spectacular along these miles. Those pageants and glittering processions are of the past: they ended in 1840, when railways were about to supplant the road; when the last distinguished traveller along these miles, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, came up by carriage to wed Queen Victoria._ CHARLES G. HARPER. FEBRUARY, 1922. THE ROAD TO DOVER London Bridge (Surrey side) to-- MILES Borough (St. George's Church) 1/2 Kent Street 3/4 Newington ("Bricklayers' Arms") 1 New Cross 3-1/4 Deptford 4-1/4 Blackheath 5 Shooter's Hill 8-1/4 Shoulder of Mutton Green 9-1/4 Belle Grove 9-1/2 Welling 10-1/4 Crook Log 10-3/4 Bexley Heath 11-1/4 Crayford (Cross River Cray) 13-1/4 Dartford (Cross River Darent) 15 John's Hole 16-1/4 Horn's Cross 17 Greenhithe 18 Northfleet 20-1/4 Gravesend (Jubilee Tower) 22 Milton 23 Chalk Street 23-1/2 Gad's Hill ("Falstaff" Inn) 26-1/4 Strood (Cross River Medway) 28-1/4 Rochester (Guildhall) 29 Chatham (Town Pier) 30 Rainham 34 Moor Street 34-1/4 Newington 36-3/4 Key Street 38 Chalk Well 39 Sittingbourne (Parish Church) 40 Bapchild 41-1/4 Radfield 41-3/4 Green Street 42-1/2 Ospringe 45-1/2 Preston 46-1/2 Boughton-under-Blean 49 Boughton Hill 50 Dunkirk 51-1/4