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 [ * ] THE HISTORY O F MANCHESTER. '* BOOK THE FIRST. C H A P. L S E C T. I. PhfrfiW MID the various doubts and uncertainties with which & A $ ignorance and inattention have clouded the Roman geo- k)&Mfjtf graphy of our iiland, no uncertainty has ever arifen and no doubt has ever been ftarted concerning the well-known claim of Marichefter to the character of a Roman ftation. A Roman Nation has been acknowledged by all the antiquarians to have been planted in the neighbourhood of Manchefter. A Roman ftation has been acknowledged by all the antiquarians to have been con- ftru&ed upon the bank of the Medlock and within the circuit Qf the Caftle-field, And the ftation is confefled by all of them tp have been the denominated Mancunium of the Roman Itine- rary. But the origin of this Mancunium is not, as all the an-' B tiquarianV