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 Chap. L OP MANCHESTER, i) cularly covered all the fite of the prefent Mattchefter. And all along the prefent ftreets, inftead of thfc cheaf ftrf toice of inchiftry and the numerous retainers of commerce m*ft have then ex- ifted the gloom of forefts and the fiifencteuf folitudfe. So eirctlin- ftartced rtiuft have then been the wh6ie bufy circuit of the prefent town, the folitude and filence being heVer interrupted but by the numerous jefbrt of foldiers to the .fortrefs in wir, by the occa- fiOnal yifits of hunter* in jpeace, ahd by the hollow hurd the dying murmurs of the gairijfcn ce»vstfing; it a diftauce in the > Caftlc-field. And a mind tolerably romantic might loilg amufe itfelf with the reflexion, that the bow and the Wolf, then (as will hereafter appear " ) the inhabitants of this gloomy rfegion, were for the moft part the only proprietors of thefe ample con- fines, and that they {lumbered perhaps in fecurity by day on the well-wooded bank of the prefent church-yard, and roamed per- haps in companies by night over the well-wooded area of the prefent market-place *°. 1 Caesar p*34« Noftr£ memerid, and Richard p. 50. and 42. See alfb b. I. ch, xii. fe&. 4.— *** See b. L oh. iv. fe&. 2. — s Richard p. 50. and Csefar p. 88. See alio b. I. ch. xii. fe£. 2. — 4 The fides of the Caftle-field and the Roman fort do not quadrate exactly with the fburoardinal points. But clearness and brevity oblige me to fpeak as if they did.***-' Horfeley p« 109 and ijr» — *• 6 Gaefar p. 89. Oppidura Cafftvelkuni^fylvis paludibufque munitum. And this lately continued fo bad a morafs, that even in the dry fummer of 1765 horfes funk up to the belly in it.-*— 7 B. I. ch. ii. fe6t 3.—' Gaefar p. 9a. Oppidum Caffivellauni,— quo fatis mqgnus hon^inum pecorifque Humerus convenerit.— 7 9 9 Monap. 8^ ; Strabo of the Gallic houfes p. 301 ; Csefar, Edifi- cia fere Gallis (jenfimifta (p. 88); Man-celiion literally the place of fkins ; and Pliny lib. xvi. c. 36^— "° A$d the tJerenans in general were equally ignorant ©f lime : Ne csementorum quidem apud ilios ufus (Tacitus De Mor f German, c* xvi*)-*- " Gale's Eflay on tljie four great roadsiin J^Jand?s Itin.*-*" Csefar p. 9a. Oppi- E a dum i