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road to cross the Calder at Brighouse, but he took it down 
the right bank of the river until it was fairly out of the way 
either of Kirklees or Cleckheaton, and turning it several 
miles out of its direct course, he connected it with an ancient 
road from Doncaster to Ribchester ! I have taken up, I fear, 
too much of your valuable time, and trenched too long on your 
kind attention, by my remarks on these two roads. But you 
will, I think, agree with me that they are of greater im- 
portance than any others passing through this parish can 
be, from the circumstance of their having upon them two 
places contending for the site of Cambodunum. And this is 
more especially the case as the claim of Slack to be considered 
the site of this station, an opinion so long held by the com- 
mon consent of antiquaries, has been called in question by 
no less a personage than the learned, urbane, and accomplished 
historian, the late Bev. Joseph Hunter, of the Record Office. 
To his opinion may be added that of the learned Horsley, 
and it will be admitted that their united testimony is entitled 
to great weight. But other opinions have been maintained 
on this subject. Camden, Burton, Gale, and Warburton, 
believed Almondbury to be the site ; while the author of the 
history of Manchester, our own "Watson, Dr. Dunham 
Whitaker, and others, contend for the site of Slack, in the 
parish of Huddersfield. That Camden committed an error 
in placing Cambodunum at Almondbury is evident, from the 
fact of Castle Hill being out of the direct route, and of nothing 
Roman ever having been found there. If Camden had 
drawn a straight line on his map between York and Manchester, 
and had been guided by it in his search through the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, he might have anticipated the sub- 
sequent discoveries at Slack. He surely would have heard 
on the spot, in the reign of Elizabeth, the tradition of a 
great town once having been there, which Whitaker and 
Watson heard in the reign of the second George ! But, 
