The town-life of Roman Britain (p. 192) was somewhat more extensive than Mommsen allows. There were four _coloniae_--Colchester or _Camulodunum_, founded about A.D. 48 (Tac. _Ann._ xii. 32); Lincoln, _Lindum_, established after the transference of the Ninth Legion to York, probably in the late first century; Gloucester or _Glevum_, founded A.D. 96-98 (_C. I. L._ vi. 3346); York or _Eburacum_, planted at an unknown date, on the opposite bank of the Ouse to the legionary fortress; and one _municipium_, Verulamium, outside St. Albans, founded before A.D. 60. There were also about a dozen “country towns,” already enumerated in the last paragraph. These were for the most part not large villages, but actual towns, furnished with temples, _fora_, houses, and street plans of Roman fashion, and inhabited, so far as our scanty evidence goes, by populations of which both upper and lower classes spoke and wrote Latin. At Bath, _Aquae Sulis_, were well-built baths, and a stately temple of the goddess of the waters. At London, _Londinium_ (later _Augusta_), was a prosperous and wealthy trading-centre. But London was the only town of real size or splendour. The rest, like the cantons mentioned above, were small and unimportant as compared with similar towns elsewhere, and though it is not strictly true that Gloucester and Verulam have produced no inscriptions (p. 193; _Eph. Epigr._ iv. p. 195), the epigraphic yield has been scanty in every town except perhaps York. The roads of the province (p. 192) are numerous, though fewer than our English antiquaries sometimes suppose. Those in the south, as Mommsen rightly saw, radiate from London: see p. 192 above. The northern military district is traversed by three main routes. One runs up the west coast to the Solway and Carlisle. A second runs through the east of the island, from York to Corbridge and to various points on the eastern part of Hadrian’s Wall. The third, diverging from the second, crossed the Yorkshire and Westmorland hills and thus reached Carlisle. From Corbridge and Carlisle roads ran on northwards, and the eastern, if not the western, of these gave access to the Wall of Pius. The Roman roads of Wales are still imperfectly known, but there was a road from Chester to Carnarvon, another from Caerleon past Neath to Carmarthen, and a third joined the western parts of these two, while others connected the forts in the interior.