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 s*5 TH^HiStORY Bookt and Gueil-ui (Gueil-ou, &s Aflerius gives it us in Vitd Alfredi p. 25, Wife) or Will-y in WiUon&irfc dr Wihfhire. And Wyll was afterwards retained by the Saxons for a Torrent,— - f Sec -alfo Al-hechmad itt b. I. eh* xii« £ 4, Baxter 9 s various mis- takes under thefe and (imilar names, and Horfeley for the fires of thefe towns. — * Baxter hai ftrangely interpreted fome of thefe names. Gun is-ftill the name of an hill near Leek in Stafford^ (Wre.— * w Maghis, feorcovkius, P&riatia, Corftopittun, and Pons jEYu have all merely Roman names. See Baxter for Borcovums and Corftopitum.—- 1 ' Of the rivers mentioned and not explained in this fe&ion it may not be improper to note, that the Cam figiufies>the Bending and the Dou-glas the Blue-Green Water and fcre merely the appellatives of rivers ; that the Lan is the con- traction of Lug Avon or Lugaun, and means a Stream of Wa- ters ; -and that the Cal-der imports the Narrow River, as Col-nun Colne and Calne before* See Mr. Baxter's miftakes in Alaund, Bremetpnacis, Durolanis, Lugandinum, for the river Lan ; and ' in Cambodunvm and Lagentium for the Calder. V. WHEN Agricola made his firft application to the chiefs ef Lancaftdre, and urged them to unite with their clans into the little communities of towns and to fettle in the neighbourhood of the Roman ftations* the prejudices which they had received from education, and the pride which they took in their folitary dignity, muft have naturally prevailed upon all of them at firft to refift his felicitations and to negleft his rebukes. But- fotoc of them did : not long either refill or negleft. By the fenfible management of the legate aftd by his happy application to their pafliousj the fcheme of ere&ing towns became the made of a£- fefted poHtenefs, and the defire of immediately fettling in them the fubjeft of honourable emulation *; Thus was a fpirit excited fcy Agricola, which of itfelf foon. executed all his. political; <te- figos*.