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The Traens. 
1'The Liris. 
The Farfarus. 
To these leading streams many others might be added ; such as 
The Suinus, the Cornish Heyne, 
Himella, pronounced Hivella the Bedfordshire Ivel, 
Misus, and 
Misio, the Cumberland Mite, &c. 
But these are enough to prove that the same people gave the 
names to the Italian and British rivers. Even the name of the 
Roman river itself was, in old times, pure Cumrian, Alb, a hill, 
(e.g. Albyn, Scotland,) and ul, water, (see Owen’s Dict.) whence 
the Latin, uligo, &c., so that the Alb-ul-a meant the mountain 
stream, or the highland river. The more common name Thy- 
bris, or Tybris (never Tiber), was, as we are informed by Varro, 
in ancient times, written Thebris or Tebris; but the same learn- 
ed author tells us in another place, that the Sabines called moun- 
tains Tebze, or (with the hard breathing) Thebz. This, with the 
Greek ;:., to flow, will again give us a literal translation of the 
indigenous appellation. 
Saxon name of the great river Trent was Tre-onta, as wellas Trenta; a form which 
identifies the British with the two Italian streams, Tronto and Trionto. If these 
be compared with the Alpine Druentia, and the British Derventio, the modern Der- 
went, it will probably be inferred, that they were all originally the same word. 
1 Probably the same as the Gallic Liger (now Loire), especially if it be com- 
pared with the Saxon Leire (now Soar), the river of Leicester, originally Leger- 
ceaster, or Ligora-ceaster. 
2 Near Gabii, now Farfa, evidently the British Wharfe. 
Varro, de Lingua Latina, liber V. cap. 6. ‘ Sed de Tiberis nomine anceps 
historia, nam suum Etruria et Latium suum esse credit, quéd fuerunt qui ab Thebri 
vicino regulo Veientum dixerunt appellatum Thebrim. Sunt qui Tiberim priscum 
nomen Latinum Albulam vocitatum literis tradiderunt.” Compare the same author 
de Re Rustica, Lib. iii. cap. 1. ‘‘ Lingua prisca et in Grecia Boleis Beeotii sine 
afflatu vocant collis Tebas ; et in Sabinis, quo e Grecia venerunt Pelasgi, etiam nunc 
ita dicunt.” 
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