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 *• THE. HIST'OHY • ~EookI. CHAP. IV. I. ' '. :Ij t [ % i « IT has been queftioned by the antiquarians, whether the ftations or the roads of the Romans were prior in time And no determination has hitherto been given to the queftion. But the decifion is very obvious. The ftations, as I have pre- vioufly intimated, were certainly prior, arid the roads were the channels of communication between them. Many of the fta- tions xnuft have neceffarily commenced, as I have mentioned 'before, during the very conqueft of the country, and all of them •at the conclufion of it. And the roads could not have been conftrufied till the fir ft or fecond fummer after both. The road from Cambodunum to Mancunium and from Man- art is repeated by both in their ioth Itinera. And tfhe road to Coccium is equally delineated to us by both Itinera* ries. But the four other roads which connected this and four others of the neighbouring ftations are given to us in neither. The road <4rom Cambodunum to Mancunium and Condate Hands thus in both : Richard's fixth Iter, Antoninus fecond Iter, Ab Eburaco Devam ufque iic^ From Eburacum to CAMBODUNO 2% CAMBODUNO 20 FINIBUS MAXIMJE tt CONDATE 1* FLAVLE.m.p. 18 Deva aa CONDATE 18 Deva 18 And
 * Calcaria m. p. 9 CaJlcaria 9
 * mancumo 18 ^lANUCIO 1*