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Iviii APPENDIX Dr. S. more rightly perhaps ITER XVIII. « ■ • » AB EBORACO PER MEDIUM INSUL-jE clausentum us- QUE SIC. Legeolio Ad Fines m. p. 21 18 ra. p. 1 6 m. p. 1 6 10 io Derventione 1 6 ^mmmmtm Derventione * Ad Trivonam Etoceto Antoninus <M«M«» m. p. 1 6 12 12 1 Thefe are the only ftations in Derbylhire which the Romans have pointed out to us. I have in the body of the work evinced Buxton to have been a ftationary town. And a road proceeds from it, as I have fhewn, to Brough near Calttetoit. Tim is -popularly denominated Batham-Gate. I travelled the road in the autumn of 1767, and found it very direft, very broken, and frequently fpoiled of all its original gravel. Circling by Fairfield to it, and proceeding about half a mile beyond the church, I found the road opening very broad on the right, courfmg in a ftraight green lane, and bordered with the ftone-hedges of the country on either fide. Thus does the ijoad go on cutting all theoth* t. roads at right angles, fometimes very plainly and fometimes very obfeurely discernible, and elbowed now on the right and now on the left by the encroachments of the inclofures along it. It crofles Small-dale Fold, defcends the (helve of the hill beyond it, and is entirely blocked up by the ftone-hedges in the valley. Here rounding a little upon the right inorder to. recover the feemingly apparent line of the road upon the oppofitehill, 1 loft cnyfelf and it for fome time. But upon the large heath immediately beyond the jalley, and 4>etifrixt.the twenty-fourth and tweaty^fifth mffeftones in the road from Manchefter to Chefterfield, leaving the turnpike road as it proceeds to the latter, and dire&Iy croffing Caftle.-