NOTABLE BOOKS.
MAP OF ROMAN BRITAIN. (Ordnance Survey. 4s. net.) THIS excellent map, showing in a scale of sixteen miles to an inch the physical features coloured and the Roman roads and settlements, will earn for the Ordnance Survey the gratitude of the many people who are seriously interested in Roman Britain. The compiler sticks to facts. He marks the roads only so far as they are proved to have existed ; gaps in a highway, such as the road, to Deva .(Chester), are indicated with a-dotted line ; missing portions, as in the roads which must have led from Deva into Wales, or again, from Colchester to Dunwich, or from London to Anderida (Pevensey) are simply left blank. Thus, the map represents the present state of our knowledge, and fresh discoveries may be noted as
they occur. The compiler is up to date ; he marks Folkestone as a Roman site, which Mr. S. E. Winbolt has recently, proved it to be : Mamucium, and not Mancunium, is rightly adopted as the Roman name of Manchester. Both the Roman and the modern names of settlements are given on the map, with an index in the introductory pamphlet. The adven- turous motorist with a taste for antiquities should essay a tour of England, following the Roman roads as here given. He would be well rewarded.
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