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the land; and during the greater part of kvst wlnter 

 (1852-3), when the floods were out, the name they bear 

 would not be deemed much less appropriate, or less descrip- 

 tive.* 



Ynys Avallon, the name by which Glastonbury was 

 knovvn to the Cymri, is one which aecords with the physical 

 conditlons obtaining in this district at the time when 

 Langport, was in fact, as in name, Llongborth ; a haven for 

 ships. Ynys Avallon, signifies " the Island abounding in 

 apple trees ;" a name peculiarly descrlptive of the place, 

 when the Turbaries were as yet in course of foi'mation, 

 and when the warrior's bärge and the fisherman's canoe 

 moved over what are now well-tilled fields, and where the 

 golden harvest rises to reward the labours of the husband- 

 man, 



These considerations, I submit, remove all the difficulties 

 which might arise from the present physical characteristics 

 of the district, and prove it not only possible, but highly 

 probable, tliat the Situation of Langport, before the time 

 of the Roman occupation, coiTesponded with the descrip- 

 tion involved in the name of Llongborth. 



The historical question remains still to be answered : — Is 

 Langport the Llongborth of which Llywarch H6n speaks, 

 in the elegy ? 



Considering the great obscurity in which the historical 

 events of that period are necessarily involved, the reasons 

 which may be advanced in favour of the affirmative are, I 

 conceive, if not altogether satisfactory, yet of great weight. 



* Since this paper was read, the Rev. F. Warre has suggested that in 

 Bawdrip we have a Romano-British name, still further confirmatory of 

 the restuary theory. Bawdrip Stands on the edge of the alluvial deposit, 

 and would really be what its name denotes, a -Bö(Z (British), dwelling 

 place, on the Ripa (Latin), bank of the jestuary. 



