AN ESSAY 
THE ROMAN ROAD 
IN 
THE VICINITY OF BURY, 
LANCASHIRE. 
By. Mr. JOHN JUST, 
Corresponding Member of the Society. 
Read April 2d, 1839. 
What we see, and hear, and read, and expe- 
rience, constitutes the sum total of our know- 
ledge. Things which have been, and now are, 
we can compare; and the results of such com- 
parisons we can store up as treasures for the 
mind, out of which our memories can draw 
whatever currency our intercourse with society 
demands, either for our own credit, or for the 
benefit and assistance of others. Of the long 
past, however, it is very little that we can know: 
the line which connects it with the present, 
becomes fainter and fainter as it recedes, until it 
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