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 Chap. V. OF MANCHESTER. i 3s Colanea **• This name, of the ftation mult have been derived from the fame name of the river upon which it was erefted, and which is now denominated Colne Water. And the river muft have enjoyed the name in. common with many others in the ifiand, particularly the Colne of Colchefter, and the Colne of St. Albans Uxbridge and Colnebrooke, Nor were the names of thefe latter rivers derived, as has been frequently fuppofed *% from the Roman colony of Camulodunum on the one and of Verulamium upon the other. The names were given, not only Co theie rivers which once had colonies upon them, but alio to feverai others which never had any at all, as to our own in JLancaftiire, to the Colne of Gloucefterfhire, and to the Calne of Wikihire. And the names of all are derived from the Bri- tiih language, Col-aun in that language fignifying tl>e narrow liver. Thus we have the river Cole at Colefliill in Warwick- there, Calder Cal-dur or Narrow Water in Yorkshire and Lan- cafhire, the river Colamon near the ifthmus of Scotland, the river Collan within the county of Kilkenny in Ireland, and the river Colun .or Clun within the county of Shrewfbu^y in Eng- land ; Amon or Avon being changed into Aun An or Un, as A-Lug-Amon is foftened into Alauna into Lan and into Lami, the varying appellation of the fame river within our own coun- ty. And thus the Colaun of Gloucefterfhire Wiltshire and JLancafliire was gradually abbreviated into Colne, juft as the fame Alauna has been abbreviated into Alne in the Warwick- (hire Alnecefter or Alcefter % 1 See the fame in another Roman road, tf orfeley p. 45 1 .-*. chard p. 50, 68, and S&— 4 B. I. ch. iv. f. 3.— '* p. 23-— 6 Ri- chard's Iter 1. and Antonine's Iter 11. — 7 P. 27. Richard calls the Merfey, and not the Dee, Seteia. And fo likewife in his Map. The etymology of this name is nothing more than Se and Teia or Deia, The Dee (fee b. I. ch. vii. f. 4. a Note), as the Britons of Anandale are called equally Elgovae and Selgovse by 1 * . tht
 * Phil. Tranfc vol. XLVIL p. 228. — 3 Dr. Stukeley upon Ri-