EIVEES : THE STOTJR, THE DEVEEILL, ETC. 29 



doe allude to these springs. Stour is a British word, and signifies a great water : sc. dwr is water ; 

 ysdwr is a considerable, or great water : ys, is particula augens. [The Stour rises near the junc- 

 tion of the three counties, Wiltshire, Somersetshire, and Dorsetshire. Its course is chiefly through 

 the last mentioned county, after leaving which it enters Hampshire, and flows into the South Avon 

 near Christchurch. J. B.] 



Deverill hath its denomination from the diving of the rill, and its rising again. Mr. Cambden 

 saieth, In this shire is a small rill called Deverill, which runneth a mile under ground,* like as also 

 doth the little river Mole hi Surry, and the river Anas [Guadiana ? J. B.] in Spam, and the Niger 

 in Africk. Polybius speakes the like of the river Oxus, " which, falling with its force into great 

 ditches, which she makes hollow, and opens the bottome by the violence of her course, and by this 

 meanes takes its course under ground for a small space, and then riseth again." (lib. x.) 



Sic ubi terrene Lycus eat epotus biatu, 



Existit procul bine, alioq^ renascitur ore. 



Sic modo combibitur, tecto modo gurgite lapsus 



Redditur Argolicis ingens Erasinus in arvia : 



Et Mysum capitisqj sui ripaqj prioris 



Pcenituisse ferunt, alio nunc ire, Caicum. OVID, METAMORPH. lib. xv. 



In Grittleton field is a swallow-hole, where sometimes foxes, &c. doe take sanctuary ; there are 

 several! such in North Wiltshire, made by flouds, &c. ; but neer Deene is a rivulet that ritnnes into 

 Emmes-poole, and nobody knowes what becomes of it after it is swallowed by the earth. 



[The reader will find a full account of the remarkable "swallows," or "swallow holes," in the 

 course of the river Mole, in Brayley's History of Surrey, vol. i. p. 171 185, with a map, and 

 some geological comments by Dr. Mantell. The river, or stream designated by Aubrey as the 

 Deverill, is probably the principal of several streams which rise near the villages of Longbridge 

 Deverill, Hill Deverill, Brixton Deverill, Monkton Deverill, and Kingston Deverill (in the south 

 west part of Wiltshire), and, after running through Maiden Bradley, flow into the Wyley near 

 Warminster. J. B.] 



At the foot of Martinsoll-hill doe issue forth tlu-ee springs, which are the sources of three rivers ; 

 they divide like the parting of the haire on the crowne of the head, and take their courses three 

 severall wayes : viz. one on the south side of the hill, which is the beginning of the upper Avon,f 

 which runnes to Salisbury ; on the other side springes the river Kynet, which runnes eastward to 

 Maryborough J ; from thence passing by Hungerford, Newbury, &c. it looses itselfe and name 

 in the river of Thames, near Reading. The third spring is the beginning of the stream that 

 runnes to Cain, called Marden, and driving several mills, both for corne and fulling, is swallowed 

 up by the North Avon at Peckingill-meadow near Tytherington. [See also Aubrey's description of 

 these three springs, ante, page 24. J. B.] 



* I am informed by the minister of Deverill Longbridge, and another gentleman that lived at Maiden Bradley thirty years, that 

 they never knew or heard of this river Deverall that runs underground. (BISHOP TANNER.) [Yet Selden, in his Notesto Drat/ton^ 

 Poly-Olbion, makes the same statement as Aubrey does respecting the Deverill. J. B.] 



) Avon, a river, in the British language. 



J Cynetium, Maryborough, hath its name from the river. The Welsh pronounce y as, wee doe . 



Quaere, if it is called Marden, or Marlen ? [Harden is the present name. J. B.] 



