. Caledonia : or, a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological . ng from the south-east directly up to thissupposed station. The antiquarian zeal of Mr. Lawtie pronounced this to be the remains of aRoman road. The indifferent eyes of Mr. Brown saw nothing but a regular causeway over a deepclay soil, which necessity may have caused to be made here in much more recent times. ColonelShand, the great discoverer of Roman camps, and the zealous explorer of Roman ways, inspectedthis ancien
. Caledonia : or, a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological . ng from the south-east directly up to thissupposed station. The antiquarian zeal of Mr. Lawtie pronounced this to be the remains of aRoman road. The indifferent eyes of Mr. Brown saw nothing but a regular causeway over a deepclay soil, which necessity may have caused to be made here in much more recent times. ColonelShand, the great discoverer of Roman camps, and the zealous explorer of Roman ways, inspectedthis ancient pavement during the summer of 1801. He informed me that it is evidently very old,and is certainly paved like the Roman roads, but is much broken at the sides, and it does notproceed in a straight line like the Roman roads in Strathearn, with which he was very it may be observed that the Roman camps do not invariably describe a straight line or aright angle where the ground does not admit of either, neither do the Roman roads always pursuea straight course when they are pushed aside by the inequality of the natui-al site. Horsleys Brit,Eomana, 1. i., ch. Ch. TV.—The Actions of L. Urbicns.} OfNOETH-BEITAIN. 129 distance of nineteen miles from the station ad Selinam. From Deskford, pur-suing the course of the rivulet to Inver-Culen, and passing along the coast of theMoi-ay frith seventeen statute miles, the Roman armies would be conductedto the Roman post, which may still be seen on the high bank of the Spey, theTuessis of Ptolomy and of Richard, below the church of Bellie, and whichwas obviously intended to cover the ford of this rapid river {Jc). This stationwas placed without any authority at Rothes, higher on the Spey, by Stukeley,and still more absurdly at Nairn by Horsley. On the eastern bank of the Spey, with the Moray frith at no great distanceto the right, the Romans were now only one days march from the Alata-Castraof Ptolomy, the Ptoroton of Richard
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