THE ROMANS. 



the West. The names are put in the Latin form, except Kala- 

 ton, which is only mentioned by Ptolemy. 



17' 



18' 



19 



20 



21 



59 



5G 



Ocellum Promonturium 



56 



The errors of this map are great and obvious. The latitudes and longitudes 

 are fictitious, that is to say, they were never observed (except the latitude 

 of Catarractonium), and are merely introduced as measures of the length 

 and breadth, to suit the eye-draughts which Ptolemy probably consulted. 

 The west coast is too far north, or the east coast too far south, to suit 

 the interior. And it is remarkable that while the proper Yorkshire towns 

 are not ill-placed with respect to each other, the Yorkshire coast is drawn 

 with almost no relation to them. This coast is only at all like the truth 

 in the southern part : nothing is right from the Gabrantvic Bay north- 

 ward. In the interior Epiacum and Vinnovium are carried from 1 to 2 

 degrees too far west, but all the other towns are pretty well placed. . 

 Hence it appears that the western coast (along which Agricola marched) 

 was better known than the eastern : that the towns round Eburacum were 



