tification in England, with the exception of Carlisle. Its walls are nearly two miles in circumference, and afford an agreeable promenade. The towers, by which they were defended, were anciently placed at bow-shot distance, that they might afford aid to each other, as well as annoy by their arrows a besieging enemy.
Chester has a Castle where a garrison is stationed, and a Cathedral erected in the fifteenth century, which is 350 feet in length, by 75 in breadth, and the altitude of the tower 127. Its most ancient portion, which was originally an abbey, was founded 1160 years since, by Wulpherius, king of Mercia. The Danes destroyed it when they took possession of Chester, in 895; but it was afterwards restored, and placed under the government of Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great. Beneath its low- browed arches we were shown the tomb of Henry IV. of Germany, and some Roman relics. Among the latter was a stone, with an obscure Latin inscription, purporting that one thousand paces of the wall were built by the cohort under Ocratius Maximinius. It is well known that the head-quarters of the twentieth Roman legion were at Chester, and that it is supposed to derive its name from Castrum, a camp or military station. Many circumstances led me to explore with peculiar in- terest this antique and fortified town.
A ride of four miles beyond it brings you to Eaton-Hall, the seat of the Marquis of Westminster. Its principal gate of entrance is said to have been erect-
