When his town had been 'haussmannized' and fitted with Roman streets, and equipped with Roman Forum and Basilica, and the rest, he yet continued to live--perhaps more happily than the true townsman--in his irregularly grouped houses and cottages amid an expanse of gardens.

The area of Silchester differed little from that of Aosta; its population, if we may judge by the number of dwelling-houses, was hardly as large as that of Timgad.
_Caerwent_ (fig.

33).
I turn lastly to another Romano-British town, Caerwent (Venta Silurum), between Chepstow and Newport in Monmouthshire.

It is a smaller town than Silchester.

Both towns perhaps began with the same area, 40 or 45 acres.