frontage, and that the boundaries had become changed in the ordinary course of things before the survey was made.

But this seems to carry conjecture rather far.
Here, in short, is the record of an oblong 'insula' in the Roman town of Orange.

It is doubtless part of a longer record, a register of house-property in the whole town.

Orange, Colonia Iulia Secundanorum Arausio, was a 'colonia' founded about 45 B.C.with discharged soldiers of Caesar's Second Legion.

Possibly the register was drawn up at this date; more probably it is rather later and may be connected with a _census_ of Gaul begun about 27 B.C.Certainly it was preserved with much care, as if one of the 'muniments' of the citizens.