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out as a suggestion. But whatever may be its worth, and quite 
apart from this last suggestion, I would conclude from the previous 
argument that there are some good grounds for believing St. Patrick 
to have been a Cumbrian. And if we are to look for his birth- 
place in Cumberland, it must be at some station on the Solway ; 
and if at any Roman Station on the Solway, you at least will agree 
with me that the balance of probability lies in favour of the place 
with which we are connected ; a town which can boast of a very 
venerable antiquity as well as of its splendid future ; a town which 
will never be destitute of historic importance and archzological 
interest if it can lay claim to Agricola as its founder and to 
St. Patrick as one of its citizens! 
