673 
Tacitus, lib. ii., c. 6, says, u The Rhine at the commence- 
ment of Batavia is broken as it were into two rivers." 
Tacitus again, Hist, iv., 28, in his account of the famous 
rising of the Germans against the Romans under Claudius 
Civilis, informs us that orders were given to " lay waste the 
country of the Ubians and Treveri, and to pass the Mosa 
and harass the Menapii and Morini and frontiers of Gaul." 
Ptolemy places " Gessoriacum statio Movinorwm " next the 
Scheldt. Sigbert's Chronicle, A.D. 881, says that "the 
Northmen and Danes laid waste with fire and sword the 
county of Morini, Menapii, and all the country round the 
Scheldt." 
Eumenius describes Gessoriacum as a place "with the sea 
and tide flowing up to its very gates, and how Constantine 
blocks up the harbour with piles and stones, and yet Carau- 
sius is able to get away by another exit, and that whilst his 
fleet was preparing for the British expedition he cleared 
Batavia of the Franks." Gratius Faliscus states that the 
place where they cross to Britain is on " the Morinian shores 
whose ebbing waves oft leave the ocean doubtful." Are all 
these authorities, Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy, Tacitus, Dion, 
Floras, &C., to be accounted of the number of know- 
nothings. Are D'Anville, and the Emperor of the French, 
and Mr. Freeman, more likely to be right than Tacitus and 
Pliny, who knew well Germany and Northern Gaul ? Many 
more quotations might be given to show that the port of the 
Morini was between the old mouths of the Rhine and the 
Scheldt.* No wonder every modern writer blunders over 
* Antoninus Iter makes Gessoriacum a port of the Germans, and places it near 
Treves, Cologne, Cassel, Tarvenna, and the Scheldt. Gessoriacum or Portus 
Morinorum, we are told hy Strabo and Appian, was twelve hours passage from 
Britain — Caesar's troop-ships never took less time, and sailed always over-night, 
so as to make land in the morning ! — See Julius Cccsar — did he cross the Channel t 
ivith Appendix, showing that he sailed from Zceland and landed in Norfolk, by 
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