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ja your Magazines for January and Fe- 
Fiisary, explained li'.e names Celtte and 
Cymhri and i)tiier terms, 'i’liese hud lor 
centuries been unknown; and they have 
led histoi'ians so strangely astray in then- 
accounts of the world, that we can 
liow scarcely discern its history from fa¬ 
ble. As I proceed, the reader will see 
that writers of our own history have 
likewise deduced nations of like names 
from <me another, where no direct coin- 
inunication can possibly he proved. 
I have already tracctl the words CemV/, 
Voluba, and other names mentioned in 
the 16th Iter of Richard; words wliicli 
before I first wrote, were totally misun¬ 
derstood, and their places misrepresent¬ 
ed. The station of Moridunum was 
totally mistaken, placed at a wrong dis¬ 
tance, and 12 miles from its true road. 
1 first shewed the import of its name, 
and its exact situation from proofs not 
to be controverted. From Durnovaria 
no Roman road had been traced west¬ 
erly, except that by Eggardon-hill, nine 
miles from Dorchester; and here Mr. 
Horsley had placed Moridunum. Had 
be followed his road (not yet explored), 
he would have found more old camps m 
Membury and Longford parishes. I’hese 
seem to have occupied the midway be¬ 
tween Eggardon and Hembury Fort, or 
Moridunum. From Durnovaria to Vin- 
dogladia the distance in the Itinerary 
is defective, and here antiquaries could 
not measure for the station; but, from 
Sorbiodutium to Vindogladia, which is 
accoi-ding to tiie Itinerary, to Horsley, 
and to maps, 12 miles; from remains 
at this place of old works, from its bar- 
rows, and more particularly from its 
old hame, compared with its Saxon sy- 
nonyme, I found Fentridge to be Vin- 
dogiadia. Here thenf as well as at 
Aloriduhuro, I pointed out another lost 
station. Mhe stations of Sorbiodunum, 
of Rfige, and of V-enta Belgarum, are 
iiot disputed-; and I had imagined that 
I had given m fair comment on these 
Iters in your last year’s Magazines. But 
it seems that the site of Cdlevn is still 
disputed^ la ^ l^te British Critic, the 
note which is inserted by the translator 
of Riciiard’s lutinerary to shew, that 
this tnwn was Silchester, is quoted with 
the critic's approbation; but this gen¬ 
tleman goes still further,'by stating that 
we ought to be content with the Editor’s 
exertions. We are greatly indebted to 
the Editor for his translation; and so 
far as the corament is just, we are also 
Much obliged to him for.his exposition,. 
The reviewer, who had not examined 
tile subject, has certainly been unlucky 
in his qaoiaciiin; hut mistakes will occur 
in every pithlication, and vve must shew 
lliat reviewers are full as liable as otiier 
men to fall into errors. The true iim 2 
of road, the distances, and the names, 
are often mistaken by the best anti¬ 
quaries; but all are anxious to discover 
the true site of a disputed station. 
Give me leave therefore to set this dis¬ 
pute finally at rest, and to prove lhak 
-biichester was Vindonuio. 
Vindonum was the chief town of th© 
Segontiaci; it lay in the Itinerary XXI 
miles from Venta: but Dr. Beeke has 
proved in the 15th vol.ot the Archaologia, 
that a V is omitted in this number, and 
that it should have been XXVI. 
In Richard it stapds: 
Caleva to Vindonum - - , XV. 
Vindonum to Venta - - XXI. 
Total XXXVI. 
It should have stood ; 
Caleva to Vindonum - - - X. 
Vindonum to Veiita - - XXVI. 
Same total XXX VT. 
From the above it appears that th$ 
V was transposed only. If the radius 
of a circle he 26 miles, and the centre 
he Venta, Vindonum, if not at Silchest¬ 
er, will fie somew'here in, or not far 
from the circumference at 26 miles dis¬ 
tance ; but this can lie at no place but 
at Silchester, unless it be too near or 
too far from ocher stations, which are 
fixed by the Itinerary. For instance, 
Vindonum has been mistaken, as men¬ 
tioned above, for Caleva, and has been 
fixed in the old Part-rcav, which im«. 
phes the raised or Bank Roady leading 
to Sorbiodunum, at Egbury camp; 
which is only 15 miles from Venta on 
the same radius. This place must there¬ 
fore be too short in distance by 11 
nules. Vindonum, in the 18ih Iter 
(which runs through Vindonum, Venta, 
&c.) is said to be 15 miles from Tamesa;' 
Dr. Beeke has clearly proved that this 
distance exactly reaches Silches'ter; but 
it is 29 miles from Egbury camp, which 
is 14 miles too iar out of the road to 
Venta, and' from Egbury to Venta no, 
direct road is to be traced. These 
then form a complete refutation of the 
note in question. Add to these that 
from Spinis to Caleva, it is said in the 
12th.Iter to be 15 miles; and. from 
thence 
