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ing the fame latitude, and only 10’ difference of longitude with 
Modonus, it was moft probably fomewhere on that river. 
Ptolomy has not obtained the real Irifh name, which was 
Lough Garman, which the Danes of the gth century tranflated 
into Waesfiord, now Wexford; and improperly called the city 
of the Manapii, which was Choille Mantann or Lough Garchon, 
now Wicklow. 
Ooxe ror exCora. ‘This river ftill retains its ancient name, being 
called in Irith Odoca or Ovoca, and is the prefent river of 
Arklow. 
"ECawe ons. ‘This city has-been fuppofed by Richard of Ciren- 
cefter, Camden, Ware and others, to be Dublin, from the 
idea that Kblana is the fame as Dubhbleana. Ptolomy by his 
latitudes places it 3 of the diftance between the rivers ORoxc 
and Bovouwsa, that is the Arklow and Boyne rivers, which is 
the real fituation of Rufh harbour. An harbour in former 
ages much frequented by foreign traders. Ptolemy indeed 
doth not mention the city by its real name, but only calls it 
the city of the B/anii. It poflibly may be Dublin, though I 
am rather inclined to think it was near Ruth, perhaps Lufk, 
which is faid to be an ancient city, and erected into a bifhopric 
foon after St. Patrick, and anciently denominated Lu/cém, in 
Latin Lufcanum. As to Dublin, the word is probably not of 
Irith but Teutonic origin, for the Norwegians and Danes who 
fettled in this ifland called it Diffin and-Divelin, from whom the 
Irifh denominated it Dubblean, and the Welch Dinas Dulin, but 
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