378 ON THE SETEIA AND 
Portus Setuntiorum to be Freckleton, at the 
‘mouth of the Ribble. 
Mr. Baines, in his history of Lancashire, fol- 
lows Mr. Whitaker, implicitly, in this part of 
topography; making Coccium, Blackrode; Reri- 
gonium, Ribchester ; the Belisama, the Mersey ; 
and Setuntiorum Portus, the mouth of the 
Ribble. The Seteza being, both by him and 
Mr. Whitaker, placed as the estuary of the Dee. 
Having stated the principal comparative views 
that have been taken by historians and antiquaries 
on these estuaries as first laid down by Ptolemy, 
who only mentions four, including the two extreme 
openings in the coast—the Seteza and Moricambe 
Azstuarium, about the location of which there 
has been little dispute, but as there are three in- 
termediate inlets—the mouths of three principal 
rivers, and only two designations—Felisama and 
the Setuntiorum Portus, the difficulty and the 
principal dispute have been to appropriate them 
—for one of the three apparently wants a Pto- 
lemean name. Two questions naturally arise from 
this view of the subject—whether Ptolemy had 
actually overlooked, in his coasting survey, one of 
these river mouths, or whether some one of them 
