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U THE HISTORY . :Book I. The road having extended about forty yards beyond the cot- tage and having pafled the boggieft region of the mofs, the turf of which even beneath the weight of the Roman gravel is ftill very foft and fpongy, the level of the ground on both fides be- gins to arife, and the height of the ridge is immediately lower- ed. But the track continues to be very evident, the gravel even lying half a yard in depth upon the firm black mofs, and the creft rifing about a whole yard in height above the adjacent fields. Thus proceeding, the road fometimes extends into the fields on the left, and the bafis of the left-hand hedge is almoft continually formed with the gravel of it. And in the third field beyond the cottage, where the cart fometimes plunges to the axle-tree and the horfes fink to the belly in the boggy foil, the border of the road is well known to the farmer by the great difficulty of harrowing the ground and by the great fcantinefe of the corn upon it. Thus does the Roman road continue along the lane, the courfe of it being ftill denominated Street, and the gravel of it being more or lefs vifible all the way. . Bfct the road approaching the common of Hollinwood, and the lane turning away on the right and left, the former deferts the latter and re-enters the fields, (weeping acrofs Wulfenden's meadow, where it is fre-' qtiently found, afcending the little elevation of Barnfield, where it is juft vifible, and appearing in a plain green ridge along the rufliy level of M6fs-grave. And cduriing through Mr. Ker- ihaw's Kitchen-croft and Fold and over Mr. Bent's Gatefield, it proceeds to Glodwick, the village of Ofterlands, and the valley of Saddle worth. It croffes the road of Huthersfield and the fields of Caftleftiaw. It pafles in one long green (earn over the boggy extent of Clouzemofs. It pafifes vifibly over the fummit of the Reaps. And it points dire&ly upon Polemoor-ftone^ the northern fide of Gowkerhill % and the genuine fite of Cambo- dunum. The fite of this ftation has never been hitherto difcovered. Fixed originally at Almondbury, it Jias fince been removed to or near toGretland-moor But the fame good reafon which occa- z fioned