^ 42S Mifcellama Curiofa. Vol. Ill* 



very near thereto, and that it was either -^w- 

 hletufe on one fide, or Calais on the other. 



The fame Ptolemy places Tiao^i^Kov bmvmv \i\ 



the fame Latitude with the i^'o^^ ^^W't but 

 ibmething more to the Eaft, which feems to 

 refute thofe that have fuppofed the Ancient 

 Port of Gejforiacum to have been Botilo£Tje^ 

 whereas by Ptolemyy pofition, it muft be either 

 Dmkirk or Gravilwg^ but the former moft 

 likely t both by the diftance from the ^'lyjoi^ 

 f^es^'y being about 20 Miles or half a degree 

 of Longitude to the Eaft, or f of the wholq 

 Coaft of Flandtrs^ which he makes but a de- , 

 gree and quarter from the Acron Icion to the 

 mouth of the Scheld which he calls Oftia Tabu^ 

 : As alfo for that Pliny 1. 4. c. \6. fpeak- 

 ingof Gejforiacum^ fays the Proximus TrajcB* 

 m into Britain from thence is 50 JVIiles, which 

 is too much unlefs Gejforiacum were fbmething 

 more Eafterly than Calais . Dion Cajfim makes 

 the diftance between France and Britain 450 

 fiadia or 55 Miles, and fays likewife 'tis the 

 iieareft, Qivfloixcorctroi/. But this is in part 

 amendedby the explication given in the Iti- 

 nerary of Antoninus^ where the {pace between 

 Geffaccrum and Rutufium isfaid to be 4^0 fiadia^ 

 (for this was the ordinary pafFage of the Rod- 

 mans into Britain^ Rutupium being more 

 Northerly and Gejforiacum more Eafterly than 

 the termini of Cafars Voyage,and confequently 

 the diftance greater than 30 Miles which Ck/^r 

 had obferv'd ^ and now lately an accurate Sur- 

 vey has proved the diftance betweenLandand 

 Land to be 26 Englijh Miles or 28^ Roman Mites^ 

 which ftiews hovy near C(^fars eftimate w;as to 

 the Truths 



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