THE TEST. 



to both, for his work was only discovered about 

 the middle of the last century) has given us a 

 rough map of the British Isles, in which he pre- 

 serves both the names of Antona and Aufona, to 

 two midland rivers ; but, by an odd mistake, he 

 calls the Avon the Antona, and the Nen the 

 Aufona, His evidence, however, proves that 

 there was in those parts a river called by the 

 Romans Anton. But, after all, it is now, I believe, 

 universally admitted that there was a midland An- 

 ton, and that this Anton is the Nen ; and Ortel- 

 lius' map of " Britain after the Ancients/* describes 

 (and I have no doubt correctly) by the name of 

 Antona, the Nen which flows by Northampton, 

 north-eastward ; and by that of Aufona, the Avon 

 which runs south-westward to the Severn. 



So far as to the North Anton. As to the South 

 Anton the case is much clearer ; indeed it is liable 

 to no doubt or difficulty at all. In the great Ord- 

 nance map, the river at the mouth of which South- 

 ampton stands, is called * the Anton or Test river,' 

 and in the common road books we are told that at 

 Redbridge, Stockbridge, and Andover, ' you cross 

 the river Anton.' Indeed the name Andover, is 

 probably derived from Anton. Here then beyond 

 all doubt, is a South Anton, and that appears to 

 corroborate, in a great degree, the text of Tacitus, 

 the commentary of Lipsius, and the map of Ortel- 

 lius, as to a North Anton. 



