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, 18 THE HISTORY Bopk I. c*ai.^- n PHpy lib. xviiu c 28. and lib, xxxvi, c, 22. — t6 Caefar p f 89. — t7 Diflert. prefixed to Hearn's Leland vol iv, Leigh's Lancafhireb.i, p. i 8. and b. iii. p. 181, and Montfaucon's L'Auti- quite Explique torn* v, p. 1 95 for fome weapons of Sharpened bone difcovered in a Gallic Jfepulchre and among Gallic weapons upon the continent. See alfo a draught of the Lancashire whet- {tone in Tab. iv, N° 2. of Leigh. It was found in a mofs at Sa- wick, about nine miles from Marton Mere.—** Pliny lib. xviii. c. 7. Gallic quoque fuura genus farris dedere, quod illic brace vacant, apud nos fandalum. The Romans called it by a Latin name exa&Iy fimilar to the Gallic, Sandalum, being the fame in import as Brae, and both calling the wheat from its fimili- tude in colour to the brogues or red (hoes of the Celtse. — * 9 Pliny lib. xviil c« 1 1. — ,# Pliny lib. xviii. c« 7#— ** Pliny lib. xvitf. c. 7* and xx. IV. THE town of Mancunium being now ere&ed in our ttften- five Arden, and the woody circuit of it being now laid open, the feveral parts of the latter neceflarily began to aflfume their feveral denominations. What thefe were we know but imper- fectly, few of the Britifli names having defcended to us. The appellations of our places have been all loft. But the appella- tions of our rivers have been generally preferved. The little names of places are confined to a fmall extent of region, and are known only to a few. But rivers flow through a length of country, and communicate their names and their waters to different di- ftri&s and to various affociations of men. While thofe there- fore are eafily loft, thefe are pretty faithfully retained. Hence moft of our rivers in the kingdom retain to the prefent hour the names which were impofed upon them two thousand years '■ ago, and Rill as they flow point out that remarkable aera in our liftory; when the large ftag of the Britifh forefts took ihelter in