[135] Alexander, at building Alexandria, marked the track of the walls with bread-corn.
[136] Urbs primum in medio regionis maximè condatur, delecto in loco qui cæteras quoque opportunitates complectatur, quas & concipere & designare minimè difficile est; deinde in partes duodecim distributio fiat, ut Vestae prima Jovique atque Minervæ consecretur; & illa urbis pars Arx nuncupetur, & septo diligenter muniatur: & ex eo urbem & regionem in duodecim partes distribuant: vici præterea in 12 partes erunt distribuendi, sicuti & cæteræ civium facultates ut ex 12 partium constitutione cursuum lustrationes commodius peragi possint: 12 quoque partes 12 diis erunt deinceps attribuendæ; & unaquæque pars, ex ejus dei nomine cui illa obtigerit, erit nuncupanda, ut tribus ipsa sit suo & tutelari deo cognominata; sed ut 12 urbis membra, sicuti in reliqua regione factum est, singulatim in duas habitationes fuerunt dividenda, quarum una circa medium sit, altera circa extremum; & habitationis quidem ordo & ratio hunc in modum conformetur.—All this Plato learnt from the Jewish œconomy.
[137] It pleases me to inquire the names of these old things, however aukward. Quære, Whether it means the name of the person buried there, or the god worshipped there, Baal, Belinus; or that it signifies only an eminence, bal, fal?
[138] Opus tessellatum found in the castle.
[139] Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.—See Fuller’s Church History, and Usher.
[140] Mr. Terry of Lincoln tells me, at Tangham near Farnham, innumerable Roman coins, urns, and antiquities, are dug up every where in hedge-rows: vast quantities of them, which he got, he gave to Oxford. This perhaps was the site of Calleva. Many pillars, pilasters, capitals, bases, marble tables, &c. dug up there continually; many in possession of George Woodroff, esq. late owner of the estate: he had many pecks of coins found there.
[141] A large parcel of it, a quarter of a mile long, is still perfect to the east of the brook, where the powder mills are on Hounslow heath, where the common road goes southward to pass it.
[142] The via Trinovantica.
[143] November, 1731, a labourer dug up an urn full of silver Roman coin, at Turnham green, as repeated in the public prints.
[144] Stanes was fenced round with a ditch.