BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND RIBCHESTER. Q 
country fashion, the fence makers have set the 
fence across it. Here young Roman road hunters 
may get hold of a scent which will improve the 
susceptibility of their organs of sense as long as 
they live. While, if confirmation be wanting, 
they may cast off a quarter of a mile or more to 
the right, where they will find a tumulus in as 
complete and perfect a specimen as Britain at this 
day can furnish them. Beyond the lodge no traces 
of the road are discernible, until we have pro- 
ceeded further than the immense stone quarries 
at Edgeworth. In the fields, here again, very 
striking traces remain, especially near and under 
a fence which, for a considerable distance runs 
upon the road. Henceforward, through numerous 
fields the road has entirely disappeared, until we 
come near the present public road to Blackburn, 
where near Round Barn traces again occur; and 
at the next house, Pike House, the line falls into 
the public road, on, and near which, with several 
traces of it, it continues to the top of the hill at 
Blacksnape. In looking behind us as we ascend 
on the road, we cannot but be struck with the 
exactness with which the straight line of road on 
which we are travelling, corresponds with the 
straight line of Watling-street on the high ground 
at Offyside. And we may be led to enquire into 
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