1810.] True Site of Places in Richard’s Itinerary. 
tushed Naedsoio. The country west- 
ward of them seems to’favour the suppo- 
sition, For several miles in that direc- 
tion, the river is bounded on each side 
by a broad and beautiful intervale,* 
which was probably the bottom of the 
ancient lake. Gentlemen of intelligence 
aud veracity have assured, that the face 
of the surrounding country is perfectly 
consistent with the supposition which 
may be naturally deduced from the 
phenomena I have above described. 
Let those who cross the wide Atlan 
tic to behold and admire the sublime 
scenery of my native land, as they wan- 
der through the vale of Lebanon, or on 
the rocky shores of the Hudson, towards 
the awful cataract of Niagara, pausing 
on this romantic spot, retrospectively 
behold a scene which no one that wit- 
nessed could have survived. 
Schenectady, BiH: 
New York, March 29th, 1810. 
—<«. Fee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N my last I corrected some mistakes 
of the Coinmentator of Richard, in 
the road from Durnovaria to Cenia; I 
beg now to proceed with my corrections 
through the remainder of this Iter; and 
must observe, in addition to my last, 
(which was at one place either very in- 
correctly expressed, or printed, I know 
not which,) that the road from Durno- 
varia to. Moridunum ran not by the 
way generally used from Dorchester, but 
by the way of the old Roman road at 
Eggardon-hill, through Dorset and So- 
merset to [lembury-fort, or Moridunum, 
on Black-Down, Devon, 
Durnovaria, or Dorchester, answers to 
thirty-six miles from Moridunuro; but is 
supposed in its site to be uncertain, from 
the number of other camps in its neigh- 
bourhood. ‘he name of the chief town 
of the Durotriges, was by Richard named 
Durinum: Ptolomy calls it Dunium, 
and Durnium. Durn, in Durnoevaria, is 
a contraction of Durin, or Water-land. 
The syllable um or am, is often rendered 
ham, and implies border ; and as varia is 
head or border, and may imply camp, 
from camps of old being formed on such 
heads, Durnovaria was, doubtless, Dor- 
chester. 
Dr. Stukeley supposes Bere to be the 
Ibernum of the Ravennas, and the next 
* Used in America to denote the plain 
between the river and the adjacens high- 
lands. 
Montury Mac. No. 202, 
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supposed Jost stations both in Antonine 
and Richard; and that Woodbury Hill 
was the Estiva to the town: but Bere ig 
eleven or twelve miles from Dorchester, 
instead of nine, as in the Itinerary. In 
like manner in placing Vindocladia at 
Boroston, the doctor’s distance was too 
great from Sorbiodunum. Gale, and 
other writers, have fixed this station at 
Winborn’ Minster, which is twenty-two 
miles trom Old Sarum; Horseley, near 
Cranborn, which is not in the same 
road ; and the commentator on Richard, 
at Gassage Cow Down, which is sixteen 
miles from Sorbiodunum: not in the an- 
cient track, nor is the name’a translation 
of Vindocladia. ' 
Dr. Stakeley derives Vindocladia from 
Vint, white, and Gladh,ariver. Aberdug- 
lediau, or [Aberdugledau] Milford Ha- 
ven, has been rendered the Mouth of 
the two Swords. Vindocladia is also 
thus derived by authors, from the situas 
tion of Winborn-Minster between two 
rivers, the Stour and the Allen. ‘“ For 
Windugledy, they say, in British signifies 
two Swords; and that the Britons called . 
their rivers peculiarly by the name of 
Swords,-is plain, they continue, from 
Aberduglediau, the British name of Mile 
ford Haven; that is, the Mouth of the 
two Swords, because two rivers called 
Glediau, that is Swords, ran into it,” 
Jt was a maxim of an old philosopher, 
that a plain agreement should be exe 
pected between the name and the thing, 
ana where there was a disagreement, 
that we should not admit ef a conjecs 
ture. Now what agreement is there be- 
tween two Swords, and the two largest 
streams which run into Milford Haven ? 
Give me leave tu ask, whether, hand to 
hand, you can cut or thrust with these 
streams? Do you wish to compare them 
with great or little, broad or narrow, long 
or short, swords? Are they like swords 
of vengeance, or of justice, or of autho- 
rity? I fear, Sir, that they are not to be — 
compared with any swords, and therefore 
are net derived trom them. 
The word Cluid, from whence the 
Cluyde in Scotland, and the Gled og 
Cled, in Wales, are derived, implies @ 
nook, and Amh or Av, varied in Au, and 
here to Iau, neeans the sea or water. 
Aber is mouth, and Du land; orDo, here 
Du, may be asign of the dative case: 
hence dberduglediau will mean, the 
Mouth of the Sea Nook-Land, or the 
mouth to the Sea Nook. Glediau will 
be the Nook, or Haven Water. 
Four things ave necessary to the ase 
certaining 
