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 And thefe I flail now begin to Investigate, purfbittg'tfeem .afe Jthey once ftretched in ednfpicuous .ridges along C< t But Dr. Stukeley's copy has, and by fine flrarlge blunder lhate i$j. jo,-*~ 3 Mn iRothmell's Overborough, apd Mr. BercivaTs tEflay Jn Phil. rTranf. vol. KLVJL i p* 2057. /The.jrtdfad from Oveiborough .to RiBchefter had bcpx ^ofithiely mentioned before 3>y the knowing Camden (p. ^14); but : liter < criricks had difc ><redited the exiftence of it by their doubts (fee Hoffeley), w- /Stuketey gives us wcne.intbnded dby liim, I.^poife, for thirtyu .fix. The . road- from Overborough to dBfockarcde (JL iuppo£bf) ,pafled through Wieffdale Poreft to Br ough ton, i where was a cfmall intermediate caftrum (I apprehend), and where it fell into -fche great road from Lancafter to Blackrode. This, allowing /for theconfiderible inequalities of the road ovttr the hills of the ?fore&, wuld meafi&rc (I believe) about 'forty Roman miles. -And perhapsithe number was thus exprefled in Antoninus g, and, the upper pair of tens being cafually omitted by a transcriber, ?, Bede's Eccl. Hift. lib. i. c. 11. The Roman refidence . hi the Hftlaud JjJhcA^^Civiifltefe Farus Bfcnte&.etf Stratae ibidem ;'la£be iiique hodk^-ntflft^nturj Sax/Chifon^pJjrvfpeakingof Ceaulin^g taking three Ronuaror ftatiouary townd, fays that he took three <&ejtersi GloucefteiS Cireiiceftser, and Rqthfe-ftefter. And Bede Hift. 3ib.*i/«.fc9rififC^ — Urbs Cnebheri vo- -csffur, tttftfiirtg tibf* Gariariiion«te 'ttf tke ^lotitia or th« preterit Brugh near* tttetto^rfa* >fofcrfk;>^jfrrid Svq hate ! Stratfletfr v* ». and »* ■ »
 * ifixty-fix p. 53. ^ * Camden p. 617, and Leigh's Hift. b-iii.
 * JB. L ch. v. fe£L 1. — 5 And the fbsty-fix :miles -which Dr.
 * the number became as it now appeals twenty, — *C, 636. —