inherit her colonizing instincts, which impel her people to cover the waste places of the world with colonies.  If the Roman remains which have been so abundantly discovered of late years in Lincoln and its vicinity had been collected and laid out for exhibition, they would have formed a most interesting collection of antiquities worthy of the town, and well worth showing to visitors who now annually make Lincoln a visitation.  Although these relics of a remote age are being dug up and are being destroyed, it is not the fault of Mr. Ramsden, for he not only preserved them as long as he conveniently could, but he also had the soil removed from over them, and had them thoroughly washed, in order that people might have an opportunity of seeing their extent and beauty.  One of these patches of pavement extended 48 yards northward from what might be called the main building, which had previously been broken up.  This strip was 13 ft. in breadth, and down its center ran an intricate pattern worked in blue tesserae.  The pattern is much used in these days in fabrics and works of art, and is, I think, called the Grecian or Roman key pattern.  On each side of this ran alternately broad ribbons of white and narrower ribbons of red tesserae.  There is also another strip of pavement to the south of the preceding patch, which has been laid bare to the extent of 27 yards.  This patch is about 10 ft. in breadth, and its western portion is cut up in neat patterns, which show that they formed the floors of rooms.  From the eastern extremity of these floors evidently another long strip of 48 or 50 yards still remains to be uncovered.  Doubtless there are other remains beneath the ground which will be laid bare as the work of mining goes on.  All these floors were not deeper than from 18 to 30 inches below the surface of the soil.  The bones of animals and other relics have been found in the covering soil and have been turned up by the miners from time to time.  The pavement is all worked out with cubes, varying in size from an inch and a half to two inches square, each piece being placed in position with most careful exactness.  The strip which extends 48 yards and is 13 ft. wide runs due north and south.  There is a second patch, running east and west, and this is 27 ft. long by 10 ft. wide, while a third is 27 ft. long by 11 ft. wide, this also running in a northern direction.  To the north of this latter piece, and separated only by about two feet (about the width of a wall, which very possibly was the original division), there is a strip of tesserae 16 ft. wide, which had been laid bare 40 yards.  It was thought probable that at the end of the last named strip still another patch would be found.  Mr. Ramsden, the manager of the Ironstone Works, is keeping a plan of the whole of the pavement, which he is coloring in exact imitation of the original work.  This, when completed, will be most interesting, and he will be quite willing to show it to any one desirous of inspecting the same.  Many persons have paid a visit to the spot where the discoveries have been made, and surprise is invariably expressed at the magnitude and beautiful symmetry of the work.