Chap. XI. OF M ' A N C HES T E R. 383 to boil die water into glebes of fait 3 And they penalty opened fome Salinas Salainnans, or falt-pits before the middle of the iecond century. The firft that were opened . feem to have beeu the falirue which were fituated in the. country of the Cat* tieuchlani jor Cafiii and have given denomination to the pre-* fent Salfldy ia Bedfordshire * About the lame period, or very loon after it other falinae were funk at Droitwich in Worcester- shire 36 * And pofteriourly to both muft the Romans have dis- covered the fak-iprings of Chefhire and have opened the re- quifite wells to them 37 . Thefe new falinae lay near to the Ro- man- Brit ifli Condate, and inuft have been the present brine -pits of Northwich. The fak-fpring at Condate lies fix teen to feven* teen yards below the forfaee: but at Northwich it rifes into light. The latter therefore would naturally be difeovered long ■before! the former, though the Spring at North wich waa at the <&{faance of three or fo&r miles fromthe ftation, . and the fpring at Condate flowed actually within the area of it ; as the mines of foltd fait at the fame Northwich lay concealed beneath . the ground and unknown to us all till the year 1670* And the towns of Salttdy Droitwich and Northwich arofe fucceffively in confequence of thefe faltpits, and were conftru&ed .immedi- ately in the vicinity of them 3 *. . ' Gen. xxxi. 21. — 4 Caefar p. 89. — 3 Gen. xiv. 23. and xxxviii. 12. — 4 Caefar p. 89. — 5 Pliny lib. viii. c. 48. — 6 Pliny ibid. and. Stiabo p»£oi. — 7 Strabo ibid>*-' Caefar p. 8^. Irtteriories pdlKhus font vefticif amd Strabo pi 305 and 307. Tor imports^* Gtefcc !p. 89. Plerique interiores pelHbusi funt YeftitL-— * ro Offiaa vol i..p. 140* and 156. Jft the latter p^gs we have the. robe of an> Irifh w extra-proyincial woman mentioned. lAnd iu the' former we have th<? robe of a provincial woman appofed to it. — " Shei* ♦*feen,' Matvma, but not likd the daughceniof tbtfwHtft; h& ■•* robes are froax theihaaeera land." — Xl Gen, xli. 42. — V 2 Exodus k. 21. and PKny lib. xix, cji i««~> li 5fce Pliay ibid.—.! 4 Ibkk-«- -* Pliny Jgtk.a&j** y.^'fcjQfta* «ok i* ^- tofe.W'tSecAift-^ '• • vka .
