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Chap. V. OF MANCHESTER. 143. Ad Alpes Peninos and to Alicana are certainly corrupted, "Only eighteen horizontal Roman miles or about twenty-one Englifli road miles are given us betwixt Ribchefter and llkley, when the real diftance by Colne or by Broughton muft meafure nearly forty. — * See Camden p, 568, and,Horfeley in Yorkfhire In- scriptions, llkley. — " It is furprizing that thefe monuments efcaped the notice of Camden, who particularly examined the infide of the church for Roman remains (p. 56 9)* And at Brough in Derbyshire (fee Appendix N°. L Iter 1 8) I faw a ftone exhibiting a fomewhat fimifar figure, a large rough ftone having been difcovered in a field a little diftant from the Grit- ftone water, and then lying in one of the hedges, which in the bending hollow of one fide exhibited the half-length of a woman (raffing her hands upon her breaft and wearing a large peaked bonnet on her head.. But there were no fhakes* ■ IT has never been ftrppofed by the anttcjuariatis that the Ro- mans had a ftation at Buxton. That they had a bath is con*- fefled by the criticks* and demonftrated by the remains 1 . And aflu redly they could not have had the one without the other* The one muft affuredly have been erected by the gamfon of the other. !n thefe the wildeft parts of the wiideft region in Eng- land,, cohered as they muft all have been by the impenett-abli frith or foreft that gave denomination to Chapel-a-Frith oil one fide of Buxton, the neighbourhood of a garrifon only could have caufed the medicinal virtues of thefe tittle fprings to be even known to the Romans. In thefe the witdtf^ -parts of the wildeft region in England* peopled as they intrft then have bee A by the hcafts that gave denomination t* the Wolf-hunters it WormhiB on another fide of B»xtot* the ©eigl^bouthAdd of * ftation only could have caufed tficfe watecs, after tfhey werd known, to be ^oilefted into a fcferveir atid to >6 cov^reA with a .-. > The*