522 Rev. Mr Williams on one Source of the 



added, a long list of Italian streams bearing the same names as 

 rivers in our island. Such are the 



1 Duria Major, 

 Duria Minor, 

 Turia, 

 Sturia, 



2 Tinia, 



3 Tinna, 



4 The Umbro, 

 The Ambra, 



5 The Truentum, 



1 Dwr, pronounced Door, is the common name among the Cumrian tribes for 

 water, river, sea. The two Duriae, tributaries of the upper Po, are still called 

 Doria Baltea, and Doria Riparia. The Turia, a small tributary of the Tiber, 

 about six miles from Rome, is not recognised by modern geographers. The Stura 

 still retaining its ancient name, is also a tributary of the upper Po. In the Sussex 

 Adur, and the Kentish Stour, we still retain the original appellations. There was 

 also a river in Latium, called both Astura and Stura, now Store. 



2 Now Timia, in Umbria. 



3 Still called Tinna, in Picenum. Both synonymous with our Tyne, and with 

 another Italian Tinea, a tributary of the Var. 



4 Cramer, Vol. i. p. 191, has the following observation : — " A short distance 

 from the lake Prilis brings us to the mouth of the Ombrone, anciently Umbro, one 

 of the most considerable rivers of Etruria. It is represented as navigable by Pliny, 

 and its name, as the same writer observes, is indicative of the Umbri having once 

 been in possession of Etruria. 11 The strength of the argument is doubled, by the 

 occurrence of a second Umbro in Etruria, not far from Arretium, called by Cramer, 

 Ambra, but written Umbro in the Peutingerian tables. The British Humber, or 

 Humyr, is evidently the same name, and equally conclusive of the presence of the 

 Umbri in Britain. 



5 Truentum, now called Tronto, is in Picenum. TheTraens,not far from Sybaris, 

 bears the modern name of Trionto. They are both evidently the same word ; the 

 first being the Latinized, and the other the Hellenized form. The Greeks seem, 

 as I shall have further occasion to remark, to have formed imaginary nominatives, 

 in order to reduce the Italian names to the analogy of their own declensions. The 



