i 3 6 THE HISTORY Book L the fame Ptolemy, &c; — 8 Leigh's N. H. of Lancafhire b. iii. p. 2, and 6, — 9 Leigh b. iii. p.' 2. and 7^ unwittingly argues againft the former navigablenefs of the river by barges, becauie it could not be navigated by (hips. ' And fee a draught of one of the rings in Tab. I. No. 21. and of one of the nails in No. 24. — ,0 Richard p. 21 and 43. — " See b. I. ch>. ix, f. 5. and ch.xi. f. 2. — lz See Leigh b. iii. p. 6. - — Xi Baxter in Regulbium and Robogdium, and Gale in Ifurium. Thufe Caefar {peaks of the Southern or Inferiour point of Britain (p. 89.), and Ptolemy con- ftantly ufes the prepofitiori vm or under to fignify the fouth and unef or above to indicate the north.-— 14 This foreft is defcribed in an old boundary-record as > two in name and one in effe£, beginning at the bridge of the Ribble, going to Steop-clough, betwixt Ribchefter and Haderfal, — betwixt Chippin andGofnaig, — to the water of Lond or Latmd— by the demefne of Hornby — to the water of the Lone or Lune — and the. current of the Ken or Kent, down the Kent to the fea,, along the coaft of the fea to the foot of the Wire— and of the Ribble, and up the Ribble to Ribble-bridge. — A verdift of 9 Hen. III. p. 237. of Kuerden, folio, a MS. in the library at Manchefter Ardh. A. 18, 5, and a rude ill-arranged half-illegible Cornmon-place-book for the Antiquities of Lancashire. +- ,s Mr. Percival in Phil. Tranf. vol. XL VII. and fee next fe£tion. — I6 See b. I. ch. Iv. £ r . — ,7 Leigh b. iii. p. 10. — " This account I received in a letter from the reverend Mr. Wilfon of Colne. — The late bilhop of Carlifle and myfelf were both at Colne verjr nearly at the fame time, and both failed of fuccefs in our fearches, though the name, the remains, the tradition are. all fo ftriking.— . ,s> Gallu- nium the immediately fucceeding name in Ravennas has been fondly fuppofed to be Whalley (Gale in Ravennas and Percival in Phil. Tranf.). But none of Ravennas'? names can with any pro* priety be applied to a place till it, has been previoufly proved to be a ftation. Whalley has never been proved, and certainly was not, a ftation. It has not either of the two only determinate fignatures of a ftation, the Roman appellation of Cafter or he concurrence of Roman roads at it. And Gallunium indeed is