64 ON ITEB XVI. OF ANTONINUS. 



the river. These are tokens of its early high rank, and it is a 

 ferry town, about 26 miles above Lostwithiel. 



DUEIUS AMNIS, OR AMNE, 



Is the station given by the way-book as next above Tamara, 

 and it has been put on the " Dart," and I believe was at 

 " Totness," about 23 English miles below Exeter. Durius is 

 either "Dwr-wy," the Water-stream, or "Dwr," the Water, and 

 most likely means the broad tide water of the part between Totness 

 and Dartmouth. Totness may be the Roman station, as the 

 fossway shews itself by the town, which was heretofore walled. 

 It is very likely that the Broad Tide-fleet of the Dart / by and 

 below Totness was called ' y Dwr," " The Water," and, since that 

 may mean other water than that of a river channel, the word 

 Amnis, British Avon, was first put on to it. 



" The Dart is very broad at the town, and the tide rises 12 

 feet at the bridge, and the Roman fosse way ran by it." Capper's 

 Geographical Dictionary. 



It may be that the name Dart itself, as that of the River-fleet, 

 of Totness, may be a short Saxon shape of Dwrydd, Cornoac, 

 " The Waters ;" and as such it would go to show Totness to be 

 the Durius (Amnis). 



ISCA DAMNONIORUM 



Is the next given upward station from Durius Amnis. It is well 

 understood, on good grounds, to be Exeter, on the " Exe " (Eks). 

 The Cornoak British " Esc," and Welsh " Wysg," a Stream. 

 Isca Damnoniorum means Isca of the Devon folk, to off-mark 

 it from Isca Silurum, the " Wysg," which we call the Usk, in 

 South Wales. Against the common belief it has been lately 

 thought by an Exeter man that " Isca Damnoniorum" was not 

 Exeter but Dorchester. I contend on the authority of good wit- 

 nesses that the Damnonii were men of Devon and not of Dorset.- 

 The m in Damn stands for the British v of " Dyvn (deep) and the 

 Welsh have always called Devon "Dyvn-naint" (Dyvn pro- 

 nounced Duvven), the " Dttp delis," which is not a gocd name 



