352 TOPOGRAPH r OF CORlSrWALL. 



In Eavenatone, the v being sounded as ti, we have clearly 

 one of the Euans ; but which, without the aid of Ptolemy, it 

 would be hard to say. There is really no evidence that either 

 Tregony or Grampound were Roman stations ; nor does it seem 

 easy to realise the existence of an amount of commerce in these 

 early days that would employ five ports on the various branches 

 of the Fal, and we have placed four there already. Polruan 

 therefore I hold to represent both Voliba and Ravenatone. It 

 retains traces of both names ; it is to all appearance the most 

 ancient settlement remaining on the Fowey ; and it has yielded 

 unmistakable traces of early comuierce with the Mediterranean. 

 I do not, however, believe that Euan means Roman, or that it 

 originated in a dedication to St. Rumon. We need not go 

 further for a meaning than Price's rwaw=river, or rhyn^ 

 promontory. 



Devionisso, which comes next, evidently represents the 

 ancient Cornish word for a fortified place — dinas, to which the 

 pronunciation Deuionis comes as close as a Latin or Italian 

 rendering of a Keltic word well can. And of the reduplicative 

 Castell-an-dinases of the county that which best suits the 

 reference is unquestionably the finest of them all — the magnifi- 

 cent entrenchment on the high ground south of St. Columb. 



With the exception of Uxella this completes the Cornish 

 towns in the Ravennat's series, but for the purpose of further 

 illustration of his method I may mention the leading features of 

 his references to Devonshire. 



Stadio Deventia is Staddon, on the east of Plymouth Sound, 

 where remains of an ancient settlement of importance have 

 recently been discovered. Stene survives in Stanborough, 

 a fine '' camp " commanding a wide extent of country, in More- 

 leigh parish. Duriarno is evidently on the Dart ; but as it 

 simply stands for "Dart river," it may be either Totnes or 

 Dartmouth, though probably the former. 



Having reached this point in exact topographical order, but 

 for the divergence inland from Truro, the Ravennat returns to 

 pick up the towns on the north coast which he has overpassed ; 

 and thus gives us in succession, Uxelis, Yertevia which is 

 probably Barnstaple, Melarnoni, and Scadura Namorum. As the 

 last is undoubtedly Exeter, and Melarnoni lies between it and 



