494 ROMAN ROAD IN THE 
gathered from this Iter, but which probably 
I may resume when leisure may permit. The 
confusion of the intermediate distances between 
the stations upon it, occasioned most likely by an 
error of some transcriber, has rendered the de- 
termination of the localities one of great difficulty. 
Whether the error now alluded to be confined 
solely to distances, or also to the names of the 
stations themselves, it may perhaps be presump- 
tuous to hazard an opinion. Only it was a rule 
with the great Camden to seek for some similarity 
in sound in the modern names of places, or of the 
rivers on which they stood, with the sound of the 
Roman names, which he considered strong cir- 
cumstantial evidence. And the authority of the 
father of Roman antiquities is not altogether to 
be despised, though he may have been laughed 
at for seeking the remains of Coccium upon 
Cockey Moor. Supposing then there be an 
error of the transcriber in names as well as the 
distances of Antonine’s 10th Iter, may not 
the Station at Boroughbridge be the Alione of 
the text, for it is situated on the Lune, formerly 
written Lon. Overborough would thus become 
the site of Galacum, and it too is situated on the 
Leck-brook, formerly written Lac. Bremetonace 
would hence have to be removed to its belong- 
