106 THE HISTORY Book L 1 Mr. Percival therefore in Phil. 5 Tranf. , averting the road to be traceable in the meadows near the bridge, differed his ima- gination to impofe upon his judgement. Such impofitions will frequently happen in antiquarian purfuits, if a perfon be not upon his guard againft them. — J This without doubt is the road which Camden conje&ures to be Roman and which he errone- oufly mentions to extend from Middlewich to Northwich (p.461.) — ' The name of Kinderton is probably formed only by the popular pronunciation of the letter R, as Pottage is inva- riably pronounced Porrage, Rachel is familiarly pronounced Tachey, Grammatica is now pronounced Grammar, and Arte* rith, a place near Carlifle and the fcene of a battle in the Triades, is now called Atterith. — * 4 Some of the people about Middlewich ridiculoufly place the Roman camp upon the area of Bellpool- HiU' in the adjoining field, a mount Aitrounded with ditches and the Dane, but containing only half an acre in extent — 5 See b. I. ch. vLf. 2. for this infcrted ftatiori.— * Richard p. 24. i-i— 7 P. 24. Ad fluvium Devam primo fit! erant Garnabii. — g See Baxter in Corinavii, and Carte vol. I. p. 108, for two etymolo- gies: that' are' as idle in themfolves a9 they are irnpertinent ih 4foeir application.*-^ 9 So Cofcdate Rhedonum in Atttoninus &c.^- ^Horfeley Scotland No; 34:— M Gale's Antoninus p. 53.— " See b. I. ch. v. f. 1. for Seteia being the Dee.— n Under the Brigantes (fays Ptolemy) in the moft wefterly regions refide the Ordovices, and^ore eafterly than the Ordovices are the Cornavif.
- — ** Richard p. 5^. — u Seeb. 1. ch. xii. f. 4. — "Among the
Camabian towns Reliqtrarum Mater Uriconium, in Richard p. 24; and Utriconion Cornoninorum in Raveimas, or, as the Vatican. MS. juftly reads the words, Urioconkim Cornaviorum. In the firft 'volume of Archaeologia, published' this very winter hy the Antiquarian Society, I find that the late Thomas Perciyal Efq; fixes Condate at Kinderton with me; But her afferts the- Roman road from Manchefter to it to be " vifible altnoft all the " way" (p. 62.); when, as the Roqtian and the prefent road actually run together almoft all the way, it is abfolutely impof- fible for the Roman to be more than partially and occafionally vifible*
