G6 ON ITER XVI. OF ANTONINTJS. 



soa I believe " Arixa," '' Ai' ix " to be ar-Esc, on the Esc, or Exe as 

 we call the stream, and by Exmoiith is an arm of the sea on the 

 Exe, and thereon, I believe, was " Canca Arixa." Charmouth 

 and Bridj)ort have been set by some wi-iters as " Canca Arixa," 

 but neither of them is on a cainc (o vor), " branch or arm of the 

 sea," nor " ar esc" on the "Esc" or "Exe." Charmouth is on 

 a stream, and takes its name from a stream with a British 

 name, which was that of some other streams, and which has 

 undergone sundry changes of pronunciation. Cirencester is on 

 a stream; in British "Y Coryn," the "Dwarfish," or Small 

 stream, and Cirencester is still called by the Welsh " Caer 

 Coryn," whence the Romans called it " Corinium," and the 

 Saxons called the " Coryn '' the " Ciren" (Kiren), and we call it 

 it the "Chern." Then a Coryn in Dorset became, with the 

 Saxons, "Oern" (Kern), and we, by a well-known change of 

 clipping, call it " Cerne," by Up-Cerne, Cerne Abbas, and 

 Nether Cerne ; and at Charminster it is the Char from " Cliarn," 

 and this shows the history of the name of the Char (Charn) — 

 Kern, Coryn at Charmouth, and I believe that any British trev 

 that might have been at the mouth of the Char, would have 

 been marked by its name, as places on a " Coryn," elsewhere 

 " Coryn " or " Aber Coryn," but not " Canca." The way-book 

 gives " Isca Damnoniorum," as xv. Eoman (about 13|^ English) 

 miles below the halting stead, next on the east of it, and that on 

 the way-book is " Moridunum" — Seaton, twice as far above 

 Exeter as the given, xv. Eoman miles, and I put in Honiton as 

 the un-named halting stead, to which the xv. Roman miles 

 belong. 



I suppose that the British tribe called in Latin the Cangiani 

 had their name as dwellers by the great Caine or Caing, or inlet 

 of the sea, between Conwy and the Isle of Anglesea. 



MORIDUNUM 



Is set qn good grounds to be at or by Seaton, in Devonshire. 

 "Moridimum" is pretty clearly the Latin shape of "Mordun," 

 in Welsh "Morddiu" — Seatown or Sea-fastness. Although 



