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 35 4 THE HISTORY Book I. Ifle of Man, and fome into Ireland (vol. vii. p. 41.) — IJ Leigh b. i. p. 62: and 63. and b; iii. p; 184 and the plate, and Phil; Tranf. 1731 and 1732. p. 257, — The horns dug up at Larbricfc were forty and forty- one inches and a half in length, were feveii or eight inches round, twenty-three inches and a half diftant from each other at the tips, but thirty-five about the middle, and had feveral branches fhooting out in different directions from them (fee the plate Tab. 5th in Leigh). And the horns found at Meales were even as 'large again (ibid. B. iii. p. 184). The brow-antlers in the latter were bigger than ufaally the arm of a man is, the beams were near two yards in height, and betwixt the two oppofite tips of the horns, which was the fartheft di- ftance, were two yards likewife (ibid. B. I. p. 63); The former were ibft and pliable when they were taken out of the earthy but afterwards grew hard and firm (ibid. B. i. p. 62.) — * 4 Sax* Chron. p. 113, Camden p. 58 and 420, and Monafticon p. 65?. vol, i. — * Leland vol. vii. part I. p. 42. Hearne. — lfi Leland ibid.— X7 Kuerden Folio p. 274 % and Leland ibid* V. As the modes of Roman civility gradually prevailed among the Siftuntians, more and ftill more of their free villains would naturally be induced to quit the baronial villas in the remoter neighbourhood of Mancunium, and -to fettle with their brethren in the town. . And, in the peculiar circumftances of the Bri- tish ftates, the current of the Roman manners muft have necef- farily increafed in its power and have expanded in its courfe, as it rolled down the three centuries and a half of the Roman re- fidence among them. The dimenfions of Mancunium muft therefore have been enlarged by the fucceflive acceflions of in- habitants and the progreflive additions of buildings. To the one original ftreet which extended along the road of the Ro- mans others muft have been gradually annexedi and have fhot put on the eaft, the weft, and the north. Four or five years ago