5 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 37

" The tides of sixteen hundred years, Have flowed, and

ebbed,- and flowed, And yet—I see the tossing spears "Come up the Roman Road "-

d if you want to know the track it took ; if you want to ear of the Roman Military stations on it—Corbridge, Lan- hester, Piercebridge, Catterick (which once again listens to he military word of command), the magnificent camp at 'ewstead, and the rest ; . if you delight-to walk musing over litary moor tracks where the curlew wails and the plovers follow Miss Jessie Mothersole in her fascinating pilgrimage ver the great Road that Agricola built from York to Tweed, ad further yet into the savage wilds of Perthshire. But

o not call it' 'Watling Street. As Leeming Lane it crosses 'orkshire, and from Tees to 'Weed the men of the fiddle Ages called it Here Street. By whate.ver name it known, always along its line will crop up some fresh feature f antiquarian interest and natural delight, and Miss Mothersole s just the guide you need to understand or enjoy either. ut the proud motorist must occasionally deign to foot it..