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Chap. IV. OP. MANCHESTER. it>7 vifible. And he alferts the Roman camp to be " yet vifible at u Kiadcrton where! the Dane: ind the Weaver join" (p. 6a<); when tb? camp is/ certainly vifible odly in the remains of twx> ditches, and when thefe are really at the diftance of two or three miles from the conjunction of the Weaver and the Dane. But Mr. Perchral was but a young antiquarian when he died. Had he lived longer, his natural genius for antiquarian ftudie? would have, been more highly cultivated, his fund of antiquarian leirn- ing would have been confiderably enriched, and his lively mind would have acquired new vigour and additional accuracy from the habit of obferving and reflecting. IH. f » - Richard's toth Iter, Antonine's ioth Iter, From Brocavonacis From Galacum Ad Alaunam m.p. .. .. Brbmetonacis m.f>. 27 Cocci o m. p. . » . • . CocCio m. p. 20 Mancunio 18. Man<Junio m. p. 17. The road to Coccium or Blackrode did not commence imme- diately from the ftation. It might have begun at the fouth- weftern angle of it, have (wept over the peninfula of Hulme-field, have eroded the Irwell at the point of the meadow, and have flanted away for Walkden Moor* And this route would have been the moft dire£t line of the road. But this route was prevented by the badnefs of the morafs betwixt the ftation and Hulme- fields, and by the prudence of retaining fo ufeful a barrier to the camp. The road to Blackrode aftually began with the road to Kinderton, and *a6hi ally proceeded with it for more than a mile. Taking the fame courfe to Throftleneft, it there turned away to the right, and there forded the Irwell at fhe (hallow which originally gave denomination to the neighbouring Traft ford, and which was lately deftroyed by the comrtiiffioners of the navigation** And having pafled the channel of the river v it • ' P 2 ' then