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■Chap. VI. OP MANCflEStfeR. *fi diverging From it* A Roman road mutt have crofled the pre- lent road to Macclesfield about half a mile to the north of Ad-«  lington-Hatl, a long lane on the left ftill bearing its appellation? of Street-lane, and in two or three miles mult neceflarily have coincided with the other about Hanford-mill. This is the con- tinuation of the road from Manchefler to Buxton, leaving the little ftation at Hanford, and bearing diredtly for Buxton. And two other roads mull have re&ched it from twO other quarters* having bequeathed their names of Street to a hme in Alderley •for three quarters of 'a mile and to a land in Cheadle for more than a mil? together. But fttuated is till thefe three ftatiditf •were in a line directly under the ridge of Our eaftern hills, they could never be conftru£ted fot the purpttfes of exploration. They could b6 cotiftru?ted mdrefy for two ptirpdfei, the fubordinate one of fecunng the roads juft entering the wihf regioti of the hills, and the important ofcebf being the necefTaty bditin£-piafcfe& for the foMiers juft mbuiitirtg the cliffs Of thtf Britifh Alps; - Six; othfef ftafcions t*ef e fixed in the ttiore irtimediate phicfciit* of Mancttnium, altd were cbtiftru&ed for the more immediate putpofes of the gatpfon In it. Th6y were detigntcf td proteA their tattle hi thd failures, and tb feefcre their &>ftttoy$ fcpdh the Tfoad*. Sdch the ftohiahs Appear td haV* generally had in the i^eighbottrhbod of thrir ftationary camps Such therefore muft be equally obviotis ill the preempt* df other ftations within the kingdorh, though they havte neWf been ndtrted by any of our -antiquaJiahL' t Ckib6f thdfelute bee# previously mentioned by a Mancunian antiquarian, . fttfd Withoot hefitatioix pronounced tt> be merely a erattiji for thfe fofltafltef . Btit ccttiftru&ed as all of them are' in the fame ftraniie'r, they can as little be all of them camps fof the furiii^e^ias'nHy of thfem can be forts for explore tion. They aY£ all 6f r tfrerft fuflkiehtfy diftinguifhed from th& letter by the height 8f theft fiies ; , t66 t6v«r to be thelites of ex- ploratory forts. :: T*hey are all 6f them fiifliciently diftingutffced' from the former by the extent of tHeir areas, too fmall to. be the , areas of fummer-cainps. Evinced to be ftst" ons by the exprete . mention of one of* thtfm m tha ItineraTy of Richard, by the ap* Z 2 pellation i