You have expressed a wish that I should give you as exact an account as I am able of the discoveries which have lately been made by the workmen who were employed in digging a new sewer in Lombard-street and Birchin-lane. In matters of this sort minute exactness as to situation can be of little importance, but the modern custom of numbering the houses will enable me to point out the places of most of the ruins with tolerable accuracy. Some small progress had been made in the work before I heard of it. About the latter end of October I was informed by a friend that many fragments of old pavement were dug up, and on enquiring I found that not only pavements, but walls, some coins, and numberless fragments of earthen ware of various forms and sorts were daily discovered which bore the most undoubted evidence of their antiquity and their Roman origin. I shall endeavour to give you first an account of the discoveries of the pavements and walls, in order to the understanding which you will recollect that Lombard-street runs nearly from the Mansion-house at the West to Gracechurch-street at the East end, and consequently that Birchin-lane runs nearly from Lombard-street South to Cornhill North.