Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . his friend, Mr. WilliamWoodman, about the great barrier which, in later days, was toform the chief object of his study and the fnagnuni opus of hisliterary and antiquarian research:—In one place for some hundredyards we rolled over the foundation of the Roman Wall. Till verylately the large flat stones which composed it were visible on thesurface, but these are now broken small by way of improving the JOHN COLLIXGWOOD BRUCE. 417 road. There was a gentleman in the coach with me who was wellacquainted with that part of the country, and was very kind in givingm
Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed . his friend, Mr. WilliamWoodman, about the great barrier which, in later days, was toform the chief object of his study and the fnagnuni opus of hisliterary and antiquarian research:—In one place for some hundredyards we rolled over the foundation of the Roman Wall. Till verylately the large flat stones which composed it were visible on thesurface, but these are now broken small by way of improving the JOHN COLLIXGWOOD BRUCE. 417 road. There was a gentleman in the coach with me who was wellacquainted with that part of the country, and was very kind in givingme every information of that sort. Should I again return home[by way of Carlisle] I intend to set out on a pilgrimage in thatdirection in search of the antique, visiting wall, tower, etc., and someremnants of Roman roads which still exist. Following up the plan foreshadowed in this letter, Dr. Bruce didvisit the Roman Wall, visited it over and over again, until he knewmore about it than any other living man. In the winter of 1848,. DR. BRUCE. being asked to deliver one of the series of lectures at the NewcastleLiterary and Philosophical Society, he chose for his subject thetheme with which he was best acquainted. For five nights heentertained large gatherings of members and their friends with TheRoman Wall and its Antiquarian Remains; entertained them sowell, indeed, that numbers of them expressed a desire to visit thescenes he had depicted, with him as their leader and guide. Outof this desire originated the famous Roman Wall Pilgrimage of1849, and out of the Pilgrimage came the work upon which thefame of Dr. Bruce chiefly rests—An Historical and DescriptiveVOL. I. 27 4i8 JOHN COLLIXGWOOD BRUCE. Account of the Roman Wall in the North of England, publishedoriginally in 1851, re-issued, with many additions and improvements,in 1853, and expanded into a third edition in 1867. The accuracyof this narrative was confirmed by the Doctor himself in 1888, onthe occasion of hanging up
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