St Nicholas [serial] . got a chance, and killed and burned right downto Eboricum in middle England. So presentlyHadrian came over in turn, and northward byhorse and chariot till he was here in the fell-country— a man not to be trifled with, quick, 18 A DAY WITH HADRIAN. [Nov. in your museum his orders, it is sup-posed, they built, eigh-teen hundred yearsago,that wall from Tyne toSolway, over hill anddale, which shines to-day in the summer sunalmost as perfect inplaces as it was whenthe last stone was setand fixed, and the hardRoman mortar settleddown to withstand allthat the Picts and
St Nicholas [serial] . got a chance, and killed and burned right downto Eboricum in middle England. So presentlyHadrian came over in turn, and northward byhorse and chariot till he was here in the fell-country— a man not to be trifled with, quick, 18 A DAY WITH HADRIAN. [Nov. in your museum his orders, it is sup-posed, they built, eigh-teen hundred yearsago,that wall from Tyne toSolway, over hill anddale, which shines to-day in the summer sunalmost as perfect inplaces as it was whenthe last stone was setand fixed, and the hardRoman mortar settleddown to withstand allthat the Picts and theblows and buffets ofeighteenhundred north-ern winters could feet wide at thebase, sixteen feet highwhen it was perfect, dark, and keen, with fierce bright eyes shining the great wall turned an adamant face to theout under those penthouse eyebrows you may northward. Not a stoat or a weasel could passnote in the portraits which his coins bear through between the two seas save at some half. SITE OF AN OLD ROMAN CAMP UPON A HILL, WITH THE RAMPART LEADING UP TO IT.
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