364 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 17 18. 



sun on Feb. IQ, 1718, O. S. the one made at Norimberg by M. Wurtzelbaur, 

 and the other at Berlin by M. Kirch. 



At Norimberg the sun rose somewhat eclipsed in his superior limb, which at 

 length became full 3 digits ; and the eclipse ended at 8^ S'" 48% about 6o° from 

 the vertex to the left. 



At Berlin the sun began to be eclipsed, immediately on his rising, viz. at 

 6^ 49"" or Ag^™. About the middle of the eclipse, viz. at 7^ 35™, the remain- 

 ing clear parts in the sun were 24' 40"; consequently, 2 dig. 50' were eclipsed. 

 The end was at 8*' 28™ 20^ 



Observations on a Roman Inscription found near Lancaster. By Roger Gale, 



Esq. F. R. S. N° 357, p. 823. 



Dr. Hunter, who communicated this inscription in N° 354, having only 

 given us his conjectures as to the first fortifying the place where it was found, 

 and the time of its repair after it had been destroyed, but said nothing relating 

 to the explanation of the inscription itself, it will not be amiss to offer some 

 thoughts upon it. I shall not in the least dispute the time of its foundation, as 

 fixed by the Doctor, but begin with the place where it was discovered, namely, 

 Lanchester or Lancaster, in the county of Durham, which I am, with him, 

 fully persuaded was the Longovicus, where the Notitia Imperii places the Nu- 

 merus Longovicariorum. , f 



This place is seated upon a great military way, about 1 2 miles from Binchester, 

 and 7 from Ebchester, the one the Vinovia, and the other the Vindomora of 

 Antoninus, as the correspondence of the numbers may evince; Binchester 

 being 19 Roman miles from Ebchester, as that is 9 from Corbridge, the exact 

 numbers the Itinerary gives us between Vinovia, Vindomora, and Corstopitum. 

 It is very surprising that the Itinerary, which must go upon the great road 

 directly through this town of Longovicus between Vindomora and Vinovia, 

 takes not the least notice of it, but measures the way at the whole length and 

 number of miles from the first to the latter of those stations. After this place 

 was repaired by Gordian, it subsisted even till the ruin of the Roman empire in 

 Britain, as is evident by the mention of it in the Notitia Imperii; so that had 

 this journey, which carries us from Vindomora to Vinovia, been composed after 

 the reign of Gordian, it would be very hard to account for the omission of this 

 remarkable station and town, as it appears to have been from this and many 

 other inscriptions found there. 



I shall take this opportunity of rectifying a mistake in the Essay towards the 

 Recovery of the Roman Highways through Britain, printed in the 6th volume 

 of Hearne's Itinerary of Leland, which having brought the Ermingstreet, not 



