AN ACCOUNT 
OFA 
ROMAN? PUBLIC: WAY 
FROM 
Manchester to Wigan. 
BY THE REV. EDMUND SIBSON, 
Minister of Ashton-in-Makerfield. 
CORRESPON DING MEMBER OF THE SOCIBTY. 
(Read April 15th, 1845.) 
On a Roman military way, the soldiers marched 
from one station to another: on a Roman public 
way, baggage, and articles of commerce were con- 
veyed. 
The military way was seven or eight yards 
broad, and was nearly in a straight line: the 
public way was twelve or fourteen yards broad ; 
and, for the convenience of carriage, this road 
often deviates from the straight line, that it may 
go on hard and level ground. And it is found 
