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Roman milts diistaiit from Segontinm, or Caernar- 

 von, and nineteen from Varac, in the neighbour- 

 hood of tiie present Bodfari. The name is dif- 

 ferently given by Ptolemy, who calls the river 

 Toisobius : why he thus calls it cannot be satis- 

 factorily accounted for ; it is certain, however, that 

 this is the river meant, for, when describing this 

 side of the island, he proceeds from North to South 

 along the coast, and by naming Toisohii jimninis 

 ostia before Cancanorum promontorium, he shews 

 that the mouth of this river lies between that pro- 

 montory and Seleia eestuarimn, or the mouth of 

 the river Dee, below Chester; and this is the only 

 river of any considerable magnitude in the inter- 

 vening space of country. Richard of Cirencester 

 also, in his Itinerary, expressly calls the river by 

 the two names of Toisobius and Conovius. The 

 legion stationed here was the tenth, not the same 

 which Julius Caesar brought with him, but that 

 called Antoniana, which served under Ostorius 

 against the Silures and Ordovices, as appears by 

 a coin dug up in Caermarthenshire, having on 

 one side a triremis ANT. AUG. and on the 

 other three standards L E G.' Several bricks 



* See Plate 19. fig 11. of Gibson's Camden, by Gmigh. 



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