[453] Details of early London in Ptol. i. 15; vi. 8. Tacit. Ann. xiv. 33. It is first mentioned by Tacitus.
[454] Tacit. Vit. Agric. c. 19.
[455] Tacit. Ann. xiv. 33.
[456] Juvenal, Sat. iv. 140.
[457] Martial, xiv. 99.
[458] Dion. lxvi. 12.
[459] For further details, see Rev. J. C. Bruce, “The Roman Wall from Tyne to Solway.” 4to., 1867.
[460] An attempt has been made by one or two writers to connect the name of Carausius with the “War of Caros” in the so-called “Poems of Ossian.” For this there will be some pretence, whenever it shall be shown that Ossian exists, except in the brain of Macpherson.
[461] Camden describes Kiulæ as a general name for all Saxon vessels. Other writers say that Kiula meant “long ships,” i.e., men of war, or galleys, whatever might be their precise shape. Keel now represents a description of barge which has long been in use in the north of England, and especially on the Tyne, built to hold twenty-one tons four hundredweight, or a keel of coals.
[462] Macpherson’s “Annals of Commerce,” i. p. 217.