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7* . - THEHJITORU . Sopk I; b^art MtactM&uofc The actfoftat o£ th* ti&jth-^roftora is a pjtrt <rf tha iofh Iter of Richard, and in. it. t&e .rotd rani front IiUguvalluira PC C4rlifl* to .*•■•■ BrOc&voaaQStl *» Cbecio 01. |fr .«••.. MaK C¥,*UQ *8< % The eCfttufet of the norttaeaftdra ft fcpatt-of the; toth Iter qf Antoninw, and ift it the *o«i, goes fsOftti Aliood to : Gakcpn* 1*9 Coccio 2Q

  1. M4KCWNJO in* p» 17. , •

In Rkihar^s Iter the ftatioa Act A&aunam appear* ckarl^ from the: mention o£ LvguvaUinm and Bcotiaronacis on coe fide* and of Cocotuoi and Manoinium on d» other, to he fomewhere? upoa or within the northern borders of Lancashire* And this, and the name Ai Ataiaam carry ua at once to the tyfoet at! Laacafter* the oaftnua ups*t A if auk or the river Lin. * The kk ality of this ftattop has. always foe* ronSflod, But the nataifc of it has been femetraim fappe&d to he th^JvUgni^dimrtnof the Cholegraphy* and More generally but more wildly tbe: Long** view of the Notitia* It was certainly ffred upenv that plane 0$ tht prefent Cattle-Hill* as the rocky eminence of the hill and the immediate vicinity of the river clearly evince of themfelves^ and a* the flail-hanging remains of the Roman, wall upon the- fteepeit part of it concur to deiponftrate *• In Antonine- fc. Iter Btcmetonacas i$:oortafa$r, as the antiqtia-. mans hatte previoufly fappoftd it to bt; die' ftatiott ofOwrbov srtagtL The only obje&icm tfeat ecnrW^have bee** raadfe tjo -thei; fappofition,, the want of itltttatfir/fM borough,, is now. preclude^,, as-the road 1$ difcovierdd.' Arid- two;* ether roads appear vdfibfy to go away from the {ktion^theone- towards* Bragh near Afcxig in Yorkflttre, and the. other tp Rib*- 1 chefter The lattexr has been: hitherto imagined' to.be the' roadnpoa which this Iter of Amontne proceed* through Caecmflfe to*