making the new line of railway on tlie eastern bank of the 

 Avon to the mouth of that river. 



Sea Mills is 16 miles from Bath, but in the " Itinerary" of 

 Antonine the distance of Abona from Aquae Solis is VI. It 

 may be that an X has been omitted in transcribing, but then 

 no mention is made of Bitton. 



The same Iter, makes the distance from Caerwent to 

 Abona IX miles, which, if Abona is Sea Mills, ought to be 

 XIX ; and we have again to add X, and suppose the numbers 

 corrupt in the original. In this Iter, "ad Sabrinam " is omitted 

 altogether, which Seyer would fix at Aust (ch. ii., p. 1 38) ; but 

 others fix it at the New Passage, as this would avoid the 

 embouchure of the Wye. 



Abel Wantner, in his " Natural History of Gloucestershire," 

 says : — " At Pollbury, where Trim goeth into Avon, much 

 coin has been found, conjectured to be the ancient station of 

 the Romans." The fields within the area are now called 

 Portburies. Roman coins have been found all around. (See 

 Seyer 's "Bristol," pp. 155, 156.) 



The passage from Aust across the Severn is one mile wide 

 at high water, but it was probably in Roman times much 

 narrower. The tradition is that anciently voices could be 

 distinguished across the passage. Within three miles of 

 Aust, on the Gloucester side, is a station at Elburton, un- 

 doubtedly Roman. It is rectangular, containing two acres. 



From Sea Mills a road can be traced to Trajectus, if 

 Trajectus is the Aust ferry. It is marked by the stony way 

 on the west side of the Trim, and continued on to Henbury. 

 (See Seyer, ch. ii.) 



Mr. Reynolds, in his commentary on that part of the 

 " Itinerary" of Antoninus which relates to Britain, in treating 

 of the XIV Iter and the stations on it, proposes to fix 

 Trajectus at Bristol. (See "Iter. Britan.," p. 361 ; Cam- 

 bridge, 1799.) After considering the reasons given 



