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Concerning Ptolemy, I have only further to say that his 

 Cenion is to my mind clearly the Fal, named not from Iregony, 

 but from Kenunjn, so that Truro really, so far as we can apply 

 the test of uomeuclature, and not its rivals Tregony and Gram- 

 pound, is the ancient head of the district. 



I do not bring Richard of Cirencester into the argument- 

 In the topographical treatise which passes under his name, it is 

 true that Tamara, Voluba, and Cenia are mentioned as in or 

 adjoining Cornwall ; but this is now justly discarded as a 

 modern forgery. 



We come therefore to the list of names of cities and camps — 

 civitatcset castra — set down by the unknown writer who is com- 

 monly known as the Anonymous Chorographer of Ravenna, and 

 who wrote subsequently to the Saxon invasion of England, and 

 probably about the 7th century. It has been too much the 

 fashion to regard his list as a mere collection of " barbarous 

 names," and although it has been suggested that the Eavennat 

 used some kind of map, and adopted some kind of order, yet it 

 has been confidently asserted that we cannot settle from it the 

 position of a single town, " since we cannot discover what was 

 the particular plan, or whether any, which the author made use 

 of in the arrangement." It may be venturesome on my part to 

 attempt the solution of a problem which has puzzled so many 

 eminent men, but I think I shall be able to give reasons in 

 favour of my method of unriddliug the mystery, which have at 

 least an air of probability. 



One point on which all commentators are agreed, is the 

 commencement of the Eavennat's list at the extreme West of 

 Cornwall ; and there is also a general belief that twentj'-four 

 names which form his tirst group, and which j)recede Mori- 

 dunum, the next station to Exeter in the well-known Antonine 

 Itinerary, relate to Cornwall and Devon. These names are : — 



Giano, Eltabo, Elconio, Nemetotacio, Tamaris, Durocoron- 

 avis, Pilai«, Vernalis, Ai'dua, Tiavenatone, Devionisso, Static 

 Deventia, Stene, Duriarno, Uxelis, Vertevia, Melarnoni, Scadum 

 Namorum, Termonin, Mostevia, Milidunum, Apanauris, Masona, 

 and Alongium. And then a fresh start is made with Moridunum, 

 mentioned as the next city to Exeter — Scadum Namorum. 



