Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . early days it served other purposes ; it was long the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire and the limit in thisdirection of the then civilized world. (ii) The northern isthmus. Forth ( notable. It is barely half as long as the other -from Boness on theForth to the Clyde a little below G . in a straight line. hardly thirty-five miles- -and l>\ road or railway th< from tideway to tideway is fairly straight and involves a very slightclimb. But this Midland vall. 167-8. THE CONQUEST OP BRITAIN lxi (as geographers oddly call it), though short, is wi
Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . early days it served other purposes ; it was long the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire and the limit in thisdirection of the then civilized world. (ii) The northern isthmus. Forth ( notable. It is barely half as long as the other -from Boness on theForth to the Clyde a little below G . in a straight line. hardly thirty-five miles- -and l>\ road or railway th< from tideway to tideway is fairly straight and involves a very slightclimb. But this Midland vall. 167-8. THE CONQUEST OP BRITAIN lxi (as geographers oddly call it), though short, is wide. At itseastern end it spreads from the lentlands south of Edinburghto the Ochrls and to Fife (twenty-five miles, north to south). and that is its general width. It has always been important lake the Tyne gap* it was for a while ( 140-(So) the north-western limit of the RomanEmpire; like the Tyne gap, too, it affeets the climate of the. £rarnond, °*2^W Edinburgh., east It first came into Roman history when, in 80or 81, it was seized by Agricola, and by him garrisoned witha row of forts (c. 23). These forts were soon abandoned, not(as has hitherto been supposed) shortly after the recall ofAgricola, but apparently as soon as his advance beyond theisthmus into Caledonia began; later, all his Scottish conquestswere lost, probably in the great upheaval which marked theclose of Trajans reign. But after the lapse of about twenty 1 See preceding note. l\ll IN I ROD1 I I [ON the Roman front r. forward t nd in \ d. 142 the Emperor Pius built from led byabout ninet<in two mil I lu- Wall itself tone wall but (in an< ient pfa murus
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