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for Dorset, and that the Damnonii -were below the Durotriges is 

 shown by Ptolemy, as well as by Richard of Cirencester, If 

 Isca Damnoniorum was Dorchester, then it was not Isca 

 Damnoriorum (Esc Dyvnaint), but " Isca Durotrigium " (Esc 

 of the Durotriges). The Welsh still call Exeter " Caer-Wysg,'' 

 and that "Wysg" is the Latin "Isca" is shown by the Latin 

 " Isca Colonia," Caerleon, which the Welsh call " Oaerlion ar 

 " Wysg," " Caerlion on the Usk," as we call the river, though 

 we call the Ex or Esk of Devon, Eks for Esk, as waps for wasp. 

 Durnovaria bears in itself the Durn of the Durngwys, Dwrinwys 

 of Asser's name of Dorset and of the Saxon Durnsaet, and 

 Durn-ceaster for Dorchester, which is not on a stream called the 

 Esc, or Exe, but on the Frome. The speech of Western Lloegr 

 (our England), and the Welsh have always called Exeter " Caer- 

 wysg," or Caer-esc." For Dorchester it has no British name, 

 because it was not a British caer, but the earthworks are Roman ; 

 and that is another reason why Dorchester could not be caer-esG. 

 If " Isca Damnoniorum" be put up to Dorchester, then Durno- 

 varia, Sorbiodunum, and Venta Belgarum must be put up each 50 

 miles further before it, and following the road to London (Lon- 

 dinisj, we must put that also up 50 miles beyond the Thames, 

 although by the earliest voices of the Britons that we can catch, 

 London was a city (Llyndaen), on the Broadpool, the Broadpool 

 in the Thames where the shipping lies, and which is called The 

 Pool to this day. 



CANCA ARIXA. 



The geographer of Ravenna gives, as a caer or town 

 seemingly as in the West of England, Canca Arixa (though it is 

 not on the 16th or other Iter), and I take it to be Exmouth, or 

 on the inlet of the sea below Exmouth. 



Canca, the Latin word shape, could stand only for the 

 British Cainc, which in the " Drych y Prif Oesoedd" is put for 

 a branch or arm of the sea. "Nid oes ond caino o for 

 rhyngddynt " it says of two places. " There is only an arm 

 of the sea between them." Taking canca, cainca as an arm of the 



