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Damnonium promontory 



also Ocrinum 

 Outlets of the river Ceniou. . 

 Outlets of the river Tamarus 

 Outlets of the river Isaca . . 

 Outlets of the river Alaenus 



Towns of the Daumonii- 



Voliba 



TJxela 



Tamare 



Isca Damnoniorum 



Second Augustan Legion . . 



Every one of these names has been diversely assigned. 

 The Vexala estuary is generally regarded as that of the Parret, 

 howevpr, and the promontory of Hercules all but universally as 

 Hartland Point Antivestaeum too has no very wide range of 

 location, varying only between Cape Cornwall, the Land's End, 

 and St. Ives. The Damnonian headland has been assigned to 

 the Deadman, but is generally accepted as the Lizard. But for 

 the fact that Ptolemy begins his survey of the southern coast 

 with the Cenion, I should myself rather suggest the Start. 



The rivers have given more trouble. The Cenion has been 

 variously regarded as the Fal and Taraar ; Tamaris as the Tamar 

 and the Exe ; Isaca as the Exe and the Wey ; Alauna as the 

 Exe and the Stour. 



With the towns it is still worse. Tamare is Tamerton, 

 Saltash, Tavistock ; Yoliba — Lostwithiel, Tregonj', Bodmin ; 

 Uxella — Exeter, Lostwithiel, Crockernwell, Bridgwater ;'^' Isca — 

 Chiselborough, Exeter, Ilchester ; and the Second Augustan 

 Legion has been placed at Liskeard. 



Some of these assumed identifications are so extraordinary 

 that at first sight it is difficult to imagine how the blunders can 

 have arisen. The problem, however, is not so very abstruse 

 after all. The worst errors have been made by those who have 



*A recent ideutification of Uxella with Bridgwater on the ground that 

 Uchal is " bi'idge " in Keltic, is founded on an etymological blunder. The 

 " bridge " in the name is really " burgh." 



