or villa, discovered not far from the limits of our supposed Roman first settlement in these parts, and marked on the map. The spot is called "the Mount," in an old deed, and stands on a prominence or rising of the ground, some twenty-five feet above the present level of the river, which, as the bed of the river itself is known to have been raised about twenty feet since Roman times, was of course once considerably more elevated than it is now. The discovery of the villa was recorded in the 'Journal of the British Archaeological Association,' vol. ii. for 1847, pp. 86, 87, 88, and a plan added. The part excavated by Mr. Charles measured, the front forty-two feet, and the side, including the part visible beyond the modern wall, about eighty-six feet. It may be therefore concluded that the whole front would have extended to about one hundred and twenty feet, at least. There were no signs of hypocausts, i.e. of the furnaces used by the Romans for heating apartments, or of any other apparatus for that purpose. The inference thus is, that this part was merely used as inferior offices, and that the parts not excavated contained the rooms of an ornamental description: and it is noticeable that a fountain of beautifully clear water rising just above, at the front door of an ornamental cottage standing on the barrack property, built some twenty or thirty years ago by Lieutenant-Colonel, afterwards Brigadier-General, Skene, had undoubtedly formerly its exit through this unexcavated part of the villa,  where it may be concluded it formed the impluvium. The walls were not above the usual thickness of those of Roman villas, being, the majority of them, about two feet, though one of the intermediate walls was nearly two feet six. But the most remarkable thing of the whole was the preposterous size and thickness of the buttresses, which some seemed inclined to think were not buttresses, but bases for pedestals of statues.