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to Chester. As the distance between the two latter places 
was about the same as that between Eibchester and York, it 
was also divided into four stages. The first of these termi- 
nated at Leeds, which, in another place, I have demonstrated 
to be the site of the missing station on the second Iter of 
Antonine, and to have been distinguished, in Eoman times, 
by the name of Loidanum. The designation is derived from the 
Gaelic " LE I O D a wide expanse, and is preserved by Bede 
and Alfred. The former speaks of this stage as being placed 
" in regione qui vocatur Loidis ; " and the latter as *'tham 
lande the LOID is haten." The name is preserved in 
the Ravennas as that of a place, amongst others, situated in 
a part of Britain which is narrowest from sea to sea, namely, 
that portion of the island extending from the Humber to the 
Tyne, and narrowed by the encroachments of the German 
Ocean and the Irish Sea. The second stage was at Slack, in 
Longwood, where important remains of its Roman garrison 
have been found, and where the fourth cohort of the Brenni 
held their fortress on an elevation midway between Eburacum 
and Deva. The third stage ended at Mancunium, the present 
opulent town of Manchester, where, on the authority of 
lapidary inscriptions, the first cohort of the Frisians w^as 
stationed. The march on this Iter terminated at Chester, 
the garrison of the twentieth legion. It will be observed 
that the first stage from York on the second Iter, like that of 
Colne from Eibchester on the seventh, is destitute of those 
remarkable indicia which reveal the Eoman lineaments that 
have been impressed on all the other stations of the two 
military ways to which I have briefly alluded. I venture to 
believe that as Loidanum stood in the same relation to the 
other military posts on the second Iter as Calunio did on the 
seventh, and as at Leeds, Eoman earthworks, a trajectus over 
the Aire, as Well as other evidences have been met with, the 
claim of Leeds to a Eoman position will scarcely be disputed* 
