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The Traens. 



1 The Liris. 

 The Farfarus. 

 To these leading streams many others might be added ; such as 



The Suinus, the Cornish Heyne, 



Himella, pronounced Hivella the Bedfordshire Ivel, 



Misus, and 



Misio, the Cumberland Mite, &c. 

 But these are enough to prove that the same people gave the 

 names to the Italian and British rivers. Even the name of the 

 Roman river itself was, in old times, pure Cumrian, Alb, a hill, 

 {e.g. Albyn, Scotland,) and ul, water, (see Owen's Diet.) whence 

 the Latin, uligo, &c, so that the Alb-ul-a meant the mountain 

 stream, or the highland river. The more common name Thy- 

 bris, or Tybris (never Tiber), was, as we are informed by Varro, 

 in ancient times, written Thebris or Tebris ; but the same learn- 

 ed author tells us in another place, that the Sabines called moun- 

 tains Tebae, or (with the hard breathing) Thebae. This, with the 

 Greek ^u, to flow, will again give us a literal translation of the 

 indigenous appellation. 



Saxon name of the great river Trent was Tre-onta, as well as Trenta ; a form which 

 identifies the British with the two Italian streams, Tronto and Trionto. If these 

 be compared with the Alpine Druentia, and the British Derventio, the modern Der- 

 went, it will probably be inferred, that they were all originally the same word. 



1 Probably the same as the Gallic Liger (now Loire), especially if it be com- 

 pared with the Saxon Leire (now Soar), the river of Leicester, originally Leger- 

 ceaster, or Ligora-ceaster. 



2 Near Gabii, now Farfa, evidently the British Wharfe. 



Varro, de Lingua Latina, liber V. cap. 6. " Sed de Tiberis nomine anceps 

 historia, nam suum Etruriaet Latium suum esse credit, quod fuerunt qui ab Thebri 

 vicino regulo Veientum dixerunt appellatum Thebrim. Sunt qui Tiberim priscum 

 nomen Latinum Albulam vocitatum Uteris tradiderunt." Compare the same author 

 de Re Rustica, Lib. iii. cap. ]. " Lingua prisca et in Graecia ^Soleis Boeotii sine 

 afflatu vocant collis Tebas ; et in Sabinis, quo e Graecia venerunt Pelasgi, etiam nunc 

 ita dicunt. 1 ' 



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