See John Warburton's Vallum Romanum, or the History and Antiquities of the Roman Wall.

London, 1754, 4to .-- W.

See likewise a good note on the Roman wall in Lingard's History of England, vol.i.p.

40, 4to edit--M.] [Footnote 11: The poet Buchanan celebrates with elegance and spirit (see his Sylvae, v.) the unviolated independence of his native country.

But, if the single testimony of Richard of Cirencester was sufficient to create a Roman province of Vespasiana to the north of the wall, that independence would be reduced within very narrow limits.] [Footnote 12: See Appian (in Prooem.) and the uniform imagery of Ossian's Poems, which, according to every hypothesis, were composed by a native Caledonian.] Such was the state of the Roman frontiers, and such the maxims of Imperial policy, from the death of Augustus to the accession of Trajan.
That virtuous and active prince had received the education of a soldier, and possessed the talents of a general.