But then it was a national concern; and when the scene of so celebrated an event became my own, I was overpaid .-- Whose patriotism would not grow warmer, as old Johnson says, on the plains of Marathon?
I began to trench the ground, to see what might be discovered; and the third day, sir, we found a stone, which I have transported to Monkbarns, in order to have the sculpture taken off with plaster of Paris; it bears a sacrificing vessel, and the letters A.D.

L.L.which may stand, without much violence, for Agricola Dicavit Libens Lubens." "Certainly, sir; for the Dutch Antiquaries claim Caligula as the founder of a light-house, on the sole authority of the letters C.C.

P.F., which they interpret Caius Caligula Pharum Fecit." "True, and it has ever been recorded as a sound exposition.

I see we shall make something of you even before you wear spectacles, notwithstanding you thought the traces of this beautiful camp indistinct when you first observed them." "In time, sir, and by good instruction"-- "-- You will become more apt--I doubt it not.

You shall peruse, upon your next visit to Monkbarns, my trivial Essay upon Castrametation, with some particular Remarks upon the Vestiges of Ancient Fortifications lately discovered by the Author at the Kaim of Kinprunes.