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ments of articles of domestic life, and some
portions of a building of not very exalted
architectural pretensions. Augusta cannot,
in fact, have been an imposing city, and had
not time during the short half-century of its
existence to make itself remarkable for any
of the outward adornments we see and
admire in such a place as Pompeii. Some
interesting bronzes, of foreign workmanship,
and a silver statuette, have been dredged out
of the Thames, and are in the British
Museum. ‘The last remnants of the old fort
which for so many centuries guarded the
approaches to the bridge were almost all
destroyed in making Cannon Street Station ;
but the site of a bath, with a good pavement, — srone in paver ALLEY MARKING SUPPOSED
still exists under the Coal Exchange in eee
Mincing Lane, at what would have been the south-eastern corner of
the pretorium. When the walls were built, we
must remember, there were two landward gates,
and so far as we know, two only, although three
ancient roads led from Augusta to the interior
of the island. One of the gates was near the site
of the modern Newgate. The other was a little
to the east of Bishopsgate. Through Bishopsgate
went the road to Colchester eastward and the
road to Lincoln northward. Through Newgate
went the road to Chester, and probably also
another western way, afterwards the road to
Reading. Of the riverside gates we have only