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APPENDIX A.

The following list gives the names of the stations along the Wall, from east to west, as given in the Notitia, together with the troops that garrisoned them, the modern names of their sites, and the countries from which the men were drawn.

The sites of all the stations after Amboglanna, with the exception of Aballaba and Axelodunum, are either quite unknown or else conjectural.

Inscriptions found in many of the stations show that they were at times garrisoned by other troops besides
those mentioned in the Notitia.

From this list it will be apparent (1) that the Romans never allowed a country to be defended by its own
levies; (2) that along the Wall, regiments drawn from the same tribes or districts were never placed next to one
another, thus the dangers of mutiny among the troops were doubly minimized.

The full title of the Notitia is Notitia Dignitatum et Administrationum Omnium tam Civilium quam Mili-
tarium in Partibus Orientis et Occidentis. The thirty-eighth chapter refers to our island, and is headed
'Sub dispositione Viri Spectabilis Ducis Britanniarum," and then, under the heading, "item per lineam Valli,"
we get the following list of stations:-

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Modern Name
of
Station.

Tribunus

Cohors IV Lingonum

Wallsend

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Newcastle-on-Tyne

District where the Regiment was raised.

Central France, near the
sources of the Seine and
Marne.

Unknown: two tribes of this
name are stated to have
been situated, one in N.E.
Scotland, one in central
Britain, the cohort could
not have been raised from
either of these.

Benwell, west of Newcastle.. Asturia, N.W. Spain.

Cohors I Frixagorum (sup- Rutchester posed to be Frisianorum)

Frisiani in N. Holland, Friesland.

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Housesteads, north of Bardon A German tribe, which crossed

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Great Chesters, north of Halt- Vid. Condercum.

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Whitley Castle, near Alston? N. of France. Pas de Calais.

Unknown..

Cuneus Armaturarum (per- Unknown..

haps a mistake for Sarmatarum)

22. Olenacum 23. Virosidum..

Præfectus

Ala I " Herculea "

Unknown.

Tribunus

Cohors VI Nerviorum ..

Unknown.

Belgium, between Meuse and
Scheldt.

S. of Russia, round Sea of
Azov-"Don Cossacks."

Vid. Alio.

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APPENDIX B.

The following list, without pretending to be exhaustive, gives, I believe, nearly all the modern names along the line of the Great Barrier, which owe their origin to their proximity to it. It will be noticed that in not one single instance is the Roman name of any of the forts preserved, or reproduced.—

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4. MODERN NAMES OF STATIONS ON OR NEAR THE WALL.

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CONSCIOUSNESS.

BY REV. E. N. HOARE, M.A.

I PROPOSE in this Paper to speak, first (I), of Consciousness in the only form in which it is now and directly known to any of us.

(II), Secondly, having arrived at some conception of the significance of this endowment, I would attempt some inquiries as to its origin and development.

(III), then, Thirdly, it will remain for us to face the question of its ultimate goal and outcome.

I. First, then, what is Consciousness?

The word is susceptible of different meanings—or, rather, the thing denoted by it exists in a series of graduated stages. But the mode of Consciousness of which I have now to speak is that of which I am myself the subject. It might be described as that intuitive realisation of myself as an individual entity in and through which I know myself as existing. This is certainly the true significance of that great postulate on which Descartes built up the whole structure of his philosophy, "Cogito, ergo sum"-I think, therefore I exist. We take this, not as an enthymeme or fragment of syllogistic argument, but as asserting, in the words of Sir William Hamilton, that "the fact of existence is given in the fact of consciousness."*

It is too often assumed that our knowledge of Mind is similar to that which we possess of Matter-that in both *Lecture on Metaphysics, i, 372.

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