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we see that it was not only burst but that the interior of 
the glass was actually crushed by the pressure, and all this 
by the discharge of one small jar, we must cease to wonder 
at the bursting power of a discharge from the clouds. 
The Rev. W. N. Molesworth, M.A., said, that in answer 
to an appeal that had been made to him by the chairman, 
he would bring under the notice of the society some Roman 
and Celtic antiquities, to which he thought that sufficient 
attention had not been given in this country. 
1. He believed that few people in Manchester were aware 
that on the side of Blackstone Edge, and within a little 
more than fourteen miles from their city, there was a Roman 
road, which was one of the most perfect and remarkable 
that existed anywhere in the world. A thin coating of 
earth and heather had so completely preserved it that in 
parts it was as fresh and new in its appearance as if it had 
been quite recently constructed. It was composed of two 
distinct ways, each just broad enough for a rather narrow 
cart to pass along it, so that it would seem that in the 
construction of this road our railway system had been 
anticipated, and that there was what may be called a 
double line, one for ascending and the other for descending 
carriages. These two ways were separated by stones nearly 
a yard wide, and in which a deep groove was cut, apparently 
designed for an aqueduct. At the top there was what was 
described in the ordnance map as a fort, but what he 
believed to be merely the quarry from which the stone used 
in the construction of the road had been obtained. Mr. 
Molesworth stated that he had inquired of many antiquari- 
ans both in this country and in France, but had not been 
able to meet with any one who had seen a Roman road that 
resembled that which he had described. 
2. The next monument to which he wished to call attem 
tion was the Cite de Limes, or de Lenies, otherwise called 
