[108] Bishop Gundulf died 1108.
[109] The river Medvacus runs through Vicenza, a city in Italy, built by the Gauls. I suppose our present Britons, or Welsh, are Gauls, the same as Cæsar conquered; that the oldest Britons are the Irish, who are much of Phœnician original, and part of the shepherds banished Africa, and who came along with Hercules Ægyptus, Assis, Melcartus, who built Carteja or Cadiz, and civilized the Celtic nations, remembered by the Gauls under the name of Hercules Ogmius.
[110] I find in this country, that the word Chart generally imports some works of antiquity. Chartway from E. Sutton to Munchilsey.
[111] In Stone church are many Roman bricks.
[112] The name of Watling-street, as it passes through the city, is almost lost by the negligence of the inhabitants, who generally of late call it Beer-cart lane.
[113] The ground east of Canterbury is sandy, and favourable for hops.
[114] In this port landed St. Augustin, the apostle of our Saxon ancestors.
[115] Vitruvius directs the gates of cities to be made oblique. This was called Madan gate, from the figure of a woman over it, as the vulgar fancy.
[116] There are a great number of large barrows about Sandwich; one at Winsborough, with a tree upon it; so it is called by the vulgar, but the learned make it Wodnesborough: between that and Sandwich is another, called Marvil hill.
[117] Among the sand-hills by Sandwich I found a curious plant, which I take to be the satyrium abortivum, or bird’s-nest of Gerard: it has a bulbous root of a red colour; the stem sometimes a foot long, whitish like young asparagus, and almost naked; a great spike of white flowers, of the cucullate sort, with a black apex: they are exceeding odoriferous. I found much eryngo there, which smells pleasantly when broke; and on all the banks of the ditches hereabouts garden-fennel grows in great plenty.