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| Lindum | Continued | Side. This was the case unless we adopt the very improbable notion that the two Rivers named Glota and Bodotria were on the borders, or were the boundaries between Scotland and England, and that the Taus is the Solway &c - which view would overturn all our conceptions of the Roman movements, and would be making Taus of Tacitus not that beautiful river which separates Fife from Angus and Perthshire; the Glota not the Clyde, and Mons Grampius not that grand mountain range so well known to every Scotchman, but some little hill in the South. -- -- -- -- This boundary, says Tactus, would have been Sufficient to limit the Roman Conquests in Britain had it been consistent with the bravery of their army or the glory of their name. But as it was not we then read of their crossing the Frith of Clyde. Some say at Dumbarton, the following year, with the new nations spoken of as lying to the west, or opposite the Coast of Ireland, he had many Successful encounters, and having Subdued them, he placed forts with a view to future operations, an afterwards probably returned to the isthmus from which he went, there to winter and make ready for his Caledonian invasion in the Spring. But before leaving this part of the history, we would advert to a difficulty as to the third year's undertakings. Agricola is said to have continued his devastations through the several nations to the mouth of the Tay. This being the case, it is evident he must have returned to the isthmus, where he erected his forts, for his undertaking in the fourth and fifth years were of Course posterior to that in the third, and in this view, we require not to correct the historian's wards, as some have done, by saying, that by the Tay he meant the Solway Frith, or the Tweed, or the Tyne. In the fifth year, it is said that Agricola placed forces ... |
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