^{page 308 note a} The old arches of Teign-bridge spring at of a foot above the common height of spring tides, or at such time of the spring, when at Teignmouth the tide rises 22 feet.

^{page 309 note a} These oak timbers appeared, when first taken up, to be sound, and not discoloured; no one would have then supposed they had been twenty years in the water. One log was sawn for the writer of this account into three inch planks; it opened like a fresh cut tree, but, though placed in a dry loft, the wood has since cracked and shrunk much, and has assumed a very dark colour. Some of this wood, in the possession of a neighbouring gentleman, is now as dark as ebony.

^{page 310 note a} I suspect the stratum of stone and gravel in which the wooden bridge was bedded, and on which the red bridge was founded, to be factitious; but it did not occur to me to ascertain this fact during the short time the work was open.

^{page 311 note a} It was reported that a plate of some metal, having on it the figure of a Dog or Lion, was found by the workmen near the foundation of the white stone bridge. Persuasion and liberal offers, and afterwards threats were used to recover it, but without success. Some said it was of bronze with an inscription, and others that it was the iron back of an old chimney. Valuable or not it is lost.

^{page 311 note b} The writer of this Article, believes the Fosseway to have been a Roman work, and the white stone bridge to have been a part thereof: but he by no means asserts that the neighbouring camps are Roman; only that the camps in this part of Devonshire, whether formed by Romans, Saxons, Danes, or Britons, were connected with, and had some reference to this Roman road.

^{page 311 note c} Denbury Down, a camp of nearly ten acres, is pronounced to be a Danish encampment, Denbury being interpreted Danes-bury; the ancient name was however Devenibyr, or Devenibyrie; this name had certainly nothing to do with the Danes.

^{page 311 note d} The only notice of Teignbridge hundred in Doomsday-book occurs in tom. i. fol. 101 a.

“Manerio Mortone pertinet tertius denarius de Tanebrige Hvnd.”

^{page 311 note e} The division of the western part of Devonshire may perhaps with more propriety be attributed to Athelstan, who, thirty-six years after the death of Alfred, conquered this county, driving the Cornish (who had occupied it from the evacuation of Britain by the Romans) beyond the Tamer. Totnes, therefore, is described as being in Angulo Cornubiæ.