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an error in some of the particular distances, as 
given by Antonine, though the general distance 
may be nearly, if not altogether, correct. Now, 
not knowing the exact distances between Broug- 
ham or Whitley castles and Boroughbridge, 
nor being acquainted with any remains between 
them, I cannot say whether the error may have 
commenced there; but having inspected the re- 
mains at Boroughbridge, and ‘knowing the dis- 
tance thence to Overborough, I can take upon 
me to state, that the 19 miles written between 
Alione and Galacum to be about the exact dis- 
tance, in Roman miles, between Boroughbridge 
and Overborough. Besides, as far as I can judge 
from a survey of the Roman road in the neigh- 
bourhood of Overborough towards Ribchester, 
and likewise from what I have seen of its remains 
in the neighbourhood of Ribchester, as well as by 
admeasurement on good maps, by transferring 
the 27 miles between Galacum and Bremetonacee 
to the distance between Bremetonacee and Coc- 
cium, we shall not fall far short of the real dis- 
tance. But whether, by transferring 20 miles as 
the distance between Coccium and Mancunium, 
we should at all approximate to the real distance 
between Ribchester and Manchester, persons 
who are better acquainted with the localities of 
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