[12] The Water-bearing Strata of London, p. 60.
[13] See, for particulars, W. Whitaker, Geology of London, vol. ii. Appendix i.; or H. B. Woodward, Geology of England and Wales, Appendix i.
[14] Tite, Antiquities of the Royal Exchange, p. xxvii.
[15] The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, by Thomas Wright, F.S.A., 1852 edit. p. 112.
[16] Thomas Wright, The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon, p. 425 et seq.
[17] In the fourth century there were British regiments in Gaul, Spain, Illyria, Egypt, and Armenia.
[18] ][ is no doubt intended for the Greek eta and means here E, so that the recovered part represents only BENEC.
[19] In Archæologia, vol. xl., Mr. W. H. Black argues that not the east side of Walbrook, but the west, was the site of the first Roman settlement. His argument is based principally upon the fact that the western side offered the greater safety, having three sides protected by water, while the fourth side was protected by a moor. Yet the eastern side had the protection of the Walbrook and the Thames on the west and south, the moor on the north, and the broad stream of the Lea running through a vast morass on the east.
[20] See London and Middlesex Archæological Society, vol. v. p. 295.
[21] Compare for instance, the city of Jerusalem, in which, despite the many sieges and conquests, the course of the old streets still remains.