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Wyke, in Cartmell ; passes Flookburgh, where part of this Roman 
road still remains ; thence crosses the Ulverston estuary, and goes 
by Mount Barrow and Lindal to Dalton, near to the second of 
which places its pavement was discovered. Thence the road 
crosses the Duddon Sands, and enters Cumberland somewhere 
near Millom. We pick it up again between Whitbeck and Bootle: 
it ls known as the High Street, says Hutchinson in his Cumber- 
land, “‘as lying on an old Roman road.” Denton further says of 
Bootle, “next to Whitbeck in the Common High Street, and 
towards the West, is Butle.” The very names “ High Street” 
and “Common Street,” generally denote an old Roman road. 
In Selker’s Bay, near Bootle, a legend says that some Roman 
galleys lie sunk, and not far off is an encampment, called Eskmeals, 
where Roman coins and altars have been found. Muncaster, in 
its name, denotes a Roman camp. Roman inscriptions have been 
found at Ravenglass. 
At Moresby, and again at Ellenborough, and from Ellen- 
borough coastwise to Bowness, all antiquaries are agreed there has 
been aroad. Further traces of this great Roman road are to be 
found in the raised road in the Parish of Holme Cultram, known 
as Causeway Head, which points directly to Bowness, though the 
estuaries of Waver and Wampool intervene. These estuaries 
appear to have been solid ground until the sea broke in, in the 
14th century. From Bowness to Carlisle a Roman road ran along 
the Wall, and was there, no doubt, long before the Wall, a 
from the march of Agricola. 
Thus we get a Roman road running round the district now 
known as the County of Cumberland, from Duddon Sands on the 
S.W. to the boundaries of Northumberland on the N.E. Now this 
road, before entering Cumberland, was a road by no means suitable 
for the march of troops, and passage of baggage, being only open 
over the great estuaries at certain hours, and those variable ones, 
puzzling, no doubt, to the Romans, who were accustomed to a 
tideless sea. When possession of the country was obtained, they 
sought a safer road, and found it by Kendal, Ambleside, and 
Keswick, to the large station, whose ruins exist near the Red Dial, 
