ON ITEE XVI. OF ANTONINUS. 69 



has given mo a hint of another Broadpool by the old city : 

 "Bridport, January 16, 1878. My Dear Sir, Thank you for 

 your kind letter. Just a few lines with an idea about the 

 Middlesex Bradpole. Is there not there too the old word partly 

 extant in the name of that part of the river Thames still called 

 the "Pool," just below the Thames Tunnel? This is surely 

 nearer the old City than the Island of Westminster. From the 

 Western boundary of the City to the Abbey must be a mile. 

 Yours very sincerely, T. COLFOX. To the Eev. W. Barnes, B.D.' J 

 " Lyme " has been taken for the " Londinis " of the Eavenna 

 geography, but " Lyme " is so called by the name of the stream 

 or water by which it stands, and that name is surely British, if 

 not " Llim," or the Smooth Water, and it is not likely that the 

 Romans or Saxons took off one British name to put on another, 

 as Llyndaen, and we must believe that "Lyme " was called by 

 some shape of that name when Londinis was called by another, 

 and that " Lyme " was not "Londinis." 



DUENOVAEIA DUENOUAEIA, DOECHESTEE. 



The Latin Durnovar seems to be a Latin shape of the British 

 Dwrin-wyr, Dorset men, men of the shire of the Dwrin or Little 

 Water ; the sea inlet by Poole. They were sometimes called 

 Morini,* or in British Horin-wyr, Little Sea Folk, Norm meaning 

 the same water as Dwrin, near which stands Wareham a Caer, 

 which I take to be Durinum, said by E. of Cirencester to be the 

 capital of the Durotriges, and from Dwrin comes Asser's name 

 of Dorset, Durn gwis, Dwrin (g)wys, "The Little Watershire," 

 and the Anglo-Saxon Dornsaete, by the outwearing of the n, 

 Dor'saet, Dorset : and the Anglo-Saxon name for Dorchester was 

 Dornceaster, Dor'ceaster. There is an inland water called the 

 " Littlesea " by Studland Bay, and the name " Morbihan," also 

 on the shore of Britanny, means the " Little Sea." A street in 

 Dorchester leading out to the old Wareham road is called Durn- 

 ffate street, and a place in Kingston, Purbeck, close by the old 

 road to Wareham, is called Durnford (Dwrinfordd) the Dwrin- 

 * Rich. Cirenc. 



