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Legion at Eburacum his work cannot therefore have been 

 completed until at least thirty-two years after the retirement of 

 Agricola : he makes no mention of either the Hadrian or the 

 Antonine Walls ; the part of his work relating to Britain may 

 therefore have been completed within thirty -five years after that 

 event ; but it is generally referred to a somewhat later date 

 the reign of Antoninus Pius, which began A.D. 138 or fifty- 

 three years after the end of Agricola's government. Beside the 

 two great Walls, which are entirely unnoticed by this author, 

 a great number of military stations which appear in the next 

 document to be considered, (the 'Itinera' of Antoninus,) are also 

 omitted. In exchange we have British Cities, Rivers, Estuaries 

 and Promontories named in methodical order, and carefully, 

 though not always correctly, registered in their supposed latitudes 

 and longitudes. None of the great roads are mentioned by 

 Ptolemy, nor does he give any obvious preference in his Cata- 

 logue of places to the military stations many of which, as given 

 in the later Itinera, he omits while other towns are specified 

 which no one else notices. 



From the ample materials which he has somewhat unskilfully 

 combined into a general Table, to illustrate a Map of the British 

 Islands, we shall here extract the part which relates to the sea- 

 coasts and interior of the territory of the Brigantes. The Latin 

 version is added, it being more generally referred to than the 

 original Greek. 



The western coast 



Greek. Latin. Long. Lat. 



Irovva eurxvo-is ...... , Ituna JSstuarium ......... 18 30' 58 45' 



Moricambe ^stuarium ... 17 30 58 20 



\ipr)v ...... Setantiorum Portus ...... 17 20 57 45 



Belisama .(Estuarium ...... 17 30 57 20 



Seteia yEstuarium ......... 17 00 57 00 



Concerning the situation of the inlets of the coast thus 

 named there is little doubt. Ituna is the Eden, and its estu- 

 ary is Solway Frith ; Morecambe Bay is the Moricambii Sinus 

 fitting to its Welsh name, the Crooked Sea ; the Setantiorum 



