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Chap. HI. OF MANCHESTER, 67 figning thereby all Mers and Lothian to the Ottadini. And fb Richard's map carries the Ottadini up to the Frith oi Forth, — " Richard p. 15. and 27. The map of this province in Richard is very inaccurate* It places the Siftuntii along the fea-^oaft of Lancafhire Weftmoreland and Cumberland, and fet- tles the Volantii at the back of them and at the foot of the hills. Such a position is abfurd in itfelf. And it is refuted by the poiition of Vplantium or Elenborough on the margin of the fea. But the map is ftill more inaccurate, placing Reri- gonium not far from the mouth of the Alauna and a very little to the fouth of it, fixing Coccium a good way to the fouth and eaft of Rerigonium and to the north of the Belifama, and fet- tling PortusSiftuntiorum at the mouth of the Alauna. For the abfurdity of thefe pofitions fee the following chapters* And Dn Stukeky has added two other miftakes, extending the Alpes Pe- ninae through half of Valentia, confining the Siftuntii to Cum- berland, laying the Voluntii at the back of them, removing Re- rigonium nearly from the mouth to the fource of the Alauna, omitting the Belifama entirely, and putting Merfeia flu: for Se» teia. — 36 Iter 4. — v Ptolemy — and Richard p. 27. , III. IN the comprehenfive hiftory of that remarkable people the Romans, there are few particulars which fo ftrongly betray their native grandeur of foul as the roads which they profecuted over all the ample extent of their empire* They girt the whole globe as it were with new zones and new zodiacs in every poffible direction And the tables of Peutinger and the Itinerary of Antonine prefent us with a magnificent difplay of the whole. * The Romans, on their invallon of this country* muffc liaye cer- tainly found feveral roads in the fouthern parts of the ifland, and -among the Belgic colonies that lined the fouthern coaft of it. Thefe muft have been previovfly laid out, though rudely, K 2 for 1