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IT, A D/fcourfe occajtond Ij an Infer ipticn found, about Throe 
Tears ago, at Langchefler in the Bijhoprick of Durham, 
and communicated to the Royal Sociecy from Dr. Hunter 
hf Dr. Woodward, as it is printed in the Philofophical 
Tranfaliions, N'’ 354. By Roger Gale, Efq\ R. S. S, 
D r. Hunter, who communicated this infeription,' 
having only given us his Conjedlutes as to the 
firft fortifying the Place where it was found, 
and the Time of its Repair after it had been deftroy’d, 
but faid nothing relating to the Explanation of the In- 
feription itfelf, tho* extremely curious ; it will not, 1 
hope, be taken amifs, if I offer fome Thoughts that oc- 
curr’d to me at firft fight of it, and afterwards indu- 
ced me to put together what follows upon that Sub- 
jedl. I fhall not in the lead difpute or call in queftion 
the Time of its Foundation, as fix’d by the Dodor, 
but begin with the Place where it was difeover’d, name- 
ly Langchefier or Lancafter, in the Bilhoprick of Dur^ 
ham, which I am, ‘ with him, fully perfuaded was the 
Longovicus, where the Notitia Imperii places the Hume-* 
rus Longovicariorum. 
This place is feated upon a great Military Way, a- 
bout I % Miles diftance from Blnchejler, and 7 from Eb* 
chefter, the one the Vinovta, and the other the Findome- 
ra of Antoninus, as the Correfpondence of the Numbers 
may evince; Binchefter being 19 Roman from Bb~ 
chefler, as that is 9 from Corhridge, the exadl Numbers 
the Itinerary gives us between Vinovia, Findomora, and 
Corjlopitum. What is very ftrange is, that the Itinerary, 
which mufl: go upon the great Road dircdly thro’ this 
t Nnnnnn Town 
’ Wilofepb, Travf, N® 2 ^ 5 . p. ^57. * Not, Imp. fol. 17^. 
