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between them beyond dispute. We are not, however, entirely 
left to this kind of evidence. That some of these roads did 
exist, and that they passed through the parish of Halifax, 
I shall endeavour to show. By reference to a map of that 
part of the Roman province in which the cities that surround 
this parish are situate, it will be evident that the more direct 
the lines which may be drawn over the country are from one 
station to another, the more certainly will they pass through 
the parish of Halifax.* Nay, so central is its situation 
between the towns I have enumerated, that any lines drawn 
from one to another with the intention of avoiding this parish 
would have to depart widely from the direct route. In the 
map straight lines may be drawn to represent the supposed 
roads. One from York to Manchester by Slack, and a branch 
from it to the same place by Greetland and Littleborough ; 
one from Aldborough to Manchester ; another from Ilkley to 
Manchester, and one from Ilkley to Slack ; and a line also 
may be drawn from Don caster to Ribchester, and another 
from Slack to Colne. It is, then, in the vicinities of these lines 
that we must look for roads as parallel to them as the irregu- 
larities of the hilly districts through which they passed 
would admit, and possessing at the same time claims to 
antiquity. As I have endeavoured to show the true destina- 
tion and direction of the roads which are supposed to have 
connected the distant towns of Brigantia, I need not trouble 
the society with any detailed account of them beyond the 
boundaries of this parish, I shall therefore confine my 
remarks to those portions that are within it, or, at least, 
as nearly so as possible. The first road on which I shall ask 
you to accompany me is the one we find in Antonine's second 
* This part of the subject was illustrated by a large map of Brigantia, on 
which the cities enumerated were distinguished ; and direct lines were d;awn 
from one city to another across the districts lying between them. The bound- 
aries of the parish of Halifax were marked in their true geographical position, 
and this portion of Brigantia was found to be intersected by every line drawn 
upon the map. 
