The frost[…]caused the fallows and seeds to ‘carry’ a good deal, and they could only hunt very slowly.

Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.

And so here, I suppose you intend to make a stand against your followers, Ranald—voto a Dios, as the Spaniard says—a very pretty position—as pretty a position for a small peloton of men as I have seen in my service—no enemy can come towards it by the road without being at the mercy of cannon and musket.

The strategic location and the local topography of the ditch system tend to favour its classification as a camp of a vexillation of Augustian or early Tiberian legionary troops.