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consistency. But Mr. Skinner reads Antona, the Anton or 

 Southampton Water, and says the chain of forts ran across fi'om 

 Southampton to the Severn. To avoid discursiveness little may 

 now be said of the rather meaningless proposition to render the 

 name of the river by Avon. Many rivers were in the historian's 

 time, as in ours, so called, and the limitation imposed by the name 

 Avon brings us little nearer to the truth. The camps of Glouces- 

 tershire may iu a sense be said to run from the Severn to either of 

 two Avons, but so may also the Wansdyke be said to mn from the 

 Severn to a third Avon. At one time Mr. Skinner seems to have 

 favoured the view of the Wansdyke being this line of Eoman 

 fortified boundary, a proposition which may I believe be discarded, 

 and the question, if there is a question, be debated between the 

 advocates of the Nen and the Anton exclusively. To proceed with 

 the story, Ostorius then attacks the Caugi, and while in their 

 country he hears of a rising among the Brigantes. The General 

 returns and makes all safe in his rear. I am quoting Tacitus, I 

 feel the difficiilty of the passage, and I think with Mr. Skinner that 

 these Brigantes could not have been the great northern nation of 

 that name who were then almost unknown, though we cannot be 

 quite so sure that the Cangi were not, as is by many supposed, a 

 north-western people. It is, however, part of Mr. Skinner's theory 

 that the Caugi were the inhabitants of Somersetshire, where the 

 particle Can is common in topographical nomenclature, and that 

 the Brigantes of the story were the people of the country round 

 Bristol. Briga, he says, is the etymon of the name Bristol, and 

 means a passage over water. To his southern Brigantes and 

 Cangi, Mr. Skinner adds a nation of Iceni, seated on the Itchen, in 

 Hampshire, and on this point he is supported by a happy conjecture 

 of Lipsius that the Iceni and Caugi of Tacitus were really no more 

 than the Ceni Magni of Caesar, who seem to have lived in the 

 south west, though of course it must be remembered that the Iceni 

 themselves are called Cenimanni in Richard's Itinerary of the East 

 of Britain. As if dealing with the same war, Tacitus goes on to 

 say that the Silures, whom all allow to have lived across the Severn, 

 were not so easily quelled, and a long war ensues, in preparation 

 for which Ostorius plants a colony of veterans at Camulodunum.* 

 * Annals, book xii., c. 32. 



