remember that there was a second station of that name, a second Vagniacae, at Aylesford; for in regard to the Roman military road which I have before described (see p. 155, ante) as coming from London by Keston, Oldbury Camp, and Wrotham Heath, it divided into two branches after having passed the heath some three or four miles; whereof one branch crossed the Medway at Radford, close by Maidstone, as I have endeavoured to set forth, the other passed over at Aylesford, and continued a separate course a mile or two from the river till it entered the Roman station at Rochester, near where the castle now stands. It will be observed that Antoninus, in his ' Itinerary,' has the name of our station "Vagniacae," in the plural number, by which a double station might be understood, and that he does not express it "Vagniaca," which would imply more particularly a single station. One manuscript copy of Antoninus has "From Vagniacae to Durobrivae vi (miles)," which probably is no mistake, but would be correct for the shorter distance which Aylesford is necessarily to Durobrivae. There is every reason to form an opinion that the Romans crossed at Maidstone or Aylesford as the tide suited, or as the floods of the river allowed, for no Roman bridge at either place is ever supposed; fords only, as the ancient names show, viz. Aylesford and Radford. Numerous objects of antiquity, British and Roman, were found, in the year 1824, at the ford at Aylesford, on the shoal there; supposed to have been lost in  ancient times by persons who passed through the river, and some of them are now in the Maidstone Museum; but Radford, near Maidstone, as before observed, has no ford there at present. 1 must now leave these pages to the favourable auspices of those who may read them. Whatever may be the merit or demerit, I alone am answerable for these views; but it perhaps may be as well that something definite should be set forth on the subject