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Wisin Or Erie CL Y 39 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
