17* A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALKS. 



all parallel, and the rows at a proper 

 diftance above each other to admit the 

 men to work. Mr. Pennant fays, the 

 holes at the end feem to run through the 

 wall lengthways; thefe, I fhould think, may 

 go fix or eight feet in the wall, but there 

 js no reafon whatever to fuppofe they ever 

 went through. 



Camden * fays, that this was the Setan~ 

 twrum Portits of Ptolemy, but Mr, Whit- 

 aker,-f- with much greater propriety, fixes 

 that at the Neb of the Nefe, a high pro- 

 montory of land in the river Ribble, about 

 eight miles weft of Prefton, in Lancafhire, 



Matthew of WeftminfterJ informs us, 

 that the body of Conftantius, the father 

 of Conftantine the Great, was difcovered 

 here in the year 1283, and honourably 



* II. 798. 



t Hiftory of Manchefter, I. 180. 182. 

 P. 371. See alfo Leland's Colle&anea de 

 rebus Brilannicus, vol. II. p. 46, 346, and 404. 



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