V. Further Observations on Cataractonium, and the Parts adjacent. By John Cade, Esq. In a Letter to Richard Gough, Director.

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Having casually had occasion to recur to the learned Mr. Burton's Commentary on Antoninus' Itinerary through Britain, where at page 53, in quotation from Bede, he tells us, that were we acquainted with the mount called Wilpapes Dun or Wilfares Dun, about ten miles from Cataractonium, we should have little cause to doubt of the true situation of that place; this circumstance attended with an ardent desire to rescue from oblivion a few places mentioned in Bede's Ecclesiastical History, and other authors, induced me take a journey from Greta Bridge to Catterick, and some other parts of Yorkshire and Durham. The result of my observations may, perhaps, be not altogether unworthy of perusal; however, I shall at all events, confide in your wonted candor and humanity.