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visitedby Eoman ships. The attempt to associate Uxella the town 

 with Vexala the river may be regarded as disposed of by the 

 difference of their recorded latitudes and longitudes. 



Tamare is given half a degree less latitude than Exeter, 

 and its longitude is practically settled by its name. It must be 

 on or near the Tamar. But Ptolemy's latitude from Exeter 

 would give the Eddystone. We have therefore to fall back 

 upon other considerations. 



x'Vs to the place of the Second Legion, the onty one to 

 which Ptolemy assigns a special station, assuming that it is 

 rightly given the same longitude as Exeter, the latitude would 

 land us somewhere on the shores of Torbay. 



We cannot gain any help from the comparative latitudes 

 of the river mouths. That would place Tamare only five 

 minutes within the Tamar estuary — satisfactory enough to 

 those who find it in King's Tamerton ; but it would place Exeter 

 25 minutes up the Exe, or somewhere in the neighbourhood of 

 Exmoor. 



If we take the Land's End as our standard, assuming as we 

 very well may, its practical identity with Bolerium, Voliba is 

 placed 10 minutes further south, somewhere in the Channel ; 

 Uxella 15 minutes to the north, and therefore sufficiently close 

 to the parallel of Lostwithiel, one of the favourite claimants for 

 the seat of this long-lost town. But precisely the same relative 

 latitude is given to Isca ; and Tamare is more hopelessly lost 

 than Voliba, 15 minutes further south, and therefore all the 

 more at sea. The Antivestteum bearings are therefore of no 

 use. 



We turn next to those of Hartland. Voliba is 40 minutes 

 south of this promontory, and that brings us to Polruan. Uxella 

 has a southing of only 15 minutes. That brings us to near 

 Boscastle, and within reasonable distance of the Camel estuary. 

 Isca has the same latitude as Uxella, and works out for Exeter 

 with remarkable accuracy. Tamare is 45 minutes to the south, 

 and that brings us just outside the entrance of Plymouth Sound. 

 The Hartland bearings are hence far more accurate than in the 

 other cases. Still Hartland fails us in the case of Tamare, and 

 I pass that town b}!- until I come to deal with the list of the 

 Eavennat. 



