The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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Passage in a Letter I received from the ingeni
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the , because it relates to an Au
thor rare to be met with in these remote Parts: "I am mightily
pleased with the Inscriptions you sent me relating to the 9th Le
gion, there being now no Room to doubt about the place of Re
sidence; a Thing which was unknown before; and for that Rea
son, those who have written about the
nothing about this, but leave us quite in the dark; only
[in his Book
in
IX Legion, came to their Assistance; but yet he makes no mention
of its being stiled
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pleased with the Inscriptions you sent me relating to the 9th Le
gion, there being now no Room to doubt about the place of Re
sidence; a Thing which was unknown before; and for that Rea
son, those who have written about the
Legions, have saidRoman
nothing about this, but leave us quite in the dark; only
Ursatus
[in his Book
de Notis Rom.] does remark that it must be somewhere
in
, becauseBritain
tells us, that when the Colony atTacitus
was destroyed byCama
lodunum
lodunum
;Boadicea
Legate of thePætilius
Cerealis
IX Legion, came to their Assistance; but yet he makes no mention
of its being stiled
Victrix."