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dible that cur antiquaries who have -ex- 
hibited their interpretations, could se- 
ridusly, have believed in their being ap- 
plicable. | Fhe present letter will abun- 
dantly prove these assertions, 
London to Benonas. 
Londinium has been derived from va- 
rious sources ; but a rational explanation 
cannot be drawn from them. The old 
foundation of this city is traced in Mait- 
land’s History of London: it was fifty feet 
Jower than at present at St. Paul’s; and 
must, from his account, have been marshy, 
and otten overflowed by the tides. Lon, 
' or Lun, implies in the Gaelic, a lake, a 
pond, or marsh; and even a stream, as in 
the rivers Lone and Lune. Din, trans- 
lated Don by the Saxons, implies, as 
will herealter be shown, Land. Among 
the Fens of Lincoln, on Boston Dyke, 
we have London Eastcote, a territory 
similar ‘to our Londen in its ancient 
state; and this name implies, from the 
above, the Fen Land. London wiil, from 
hence, be rationally explained by, the 
Stream or Marsh Land. 
Sullonacis, or Sufloniacis, the next 
station, is derived by Mr. Baxter, Dr. 
Stvkeley, and others, from Cassidellanus ; 
and Mr. Snarpe, who lived on the spot 
at Brockley Hill, erected there an obe- 
lisk, with inscriptions to this purport. .To 
Cassibellanus [also could wisk to give the 
honour of naming this station; bat the 
derivation of Sullonacis from Cassibel- 
Janus, brings to remembrance the deri- 
vation of Hartland Point from Hercules. 
Fili has often been written in old 
names, Hul/; as at Huil Bishop, in So- 
merset, called-also Hil/ Bishop. In the 
Gaelic there is no H; and where-other 
Janguages began with an H,-the Gaelic 
often used an S; hence Sil, or Sui, in 
old names, mmplied Hill.* On meant 
Land, aud Ac Ridge, or Border, as shown 
an a former letter: Sullonacis wil! there- 
fore imply, the Hill Land Ridge» or 
Border settlement. . Brockley is ‘the 
resent name, derived from HBraighe, a 
Hill, changed to Braiche, Broiche, and 
Brock: Ley imphes Land; and Brock- 
fey, Hill Land. ) pe 
- So much has been said by authors, of 
the import of the word Cassilellanus, 
that there seems no room for more to be 
introduced: but Cassieuvchlan, Cassi- 
bellan, and Cassivellan, are synonymes, 
E have explained the first in a former 
letter. Euch there is the same as Vel, 
* In the word Si/ures, UF is Border, and 
the name implies the Bill Borderers. ; 
Derwation of Names in Antoninus. 
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or Bel, here; each means Border: and 
‘these terms, contrary to all the interpre- 
tations of our antiquaries, imply no 
more when applied to Cassibellanus, 
than the Stream Borderer. 
Verolanium is the next station, which 
is explained in my last. b 
Durecobrius, called also Durocobrive, 
comes next. Dunstable is the Duroco- 
brius of the Itinerary; but many writers ~ 
conceive, that it hath been transposed by 
some early copyists, and that it should 
follow ‘Magio-vinnio. Magiovinnio hath 
then’ been supposed Dunstable; and 
from Mues and Gwin, two Welsh words, 
it hath been rendered the White Camp, 
orthe White Field, Our old autiquaries, 
acquiescing in this translation, consi- 
dered themselves obliged to fix Magintum 
on the chalk-hill, or plain, of Dunstable ; 
but where to place Durocobrius was a 
dificulty. Mr. Gale, making a traverse 
from the direct road, carried it to Hert- \ 
ford; but in doing this, his distance from 
Dunstable was too great: Dr. Stukeley 
' therefore departed from the main road to 
Berkhamstead. Later writers, consi- 
dering the White Field, and the White 
Plain, of not sufficient authority to over- 
turn the Itinerary in its different routes, 
ang finding Rickard’s Itinerary to corros 
borate the statements in Antoninus, have 
again followed these authors; whilst 
others still suppose, that these names 
have been transposed: so little have an, 
tiquaries attended to this necessary part 
of their task, the analysing of old 
names for the features of nature, that 
the roots and serviléS’ in these names 
have been unknown Jor ages; nor have 
they generally understood, that many of 
the present names are translations of. 
older ones.—But to return : Durocobrius 
is derived from Du, Land, Roc,*Plain, 
and Bri, a Hil. All our writers have- 
been at a loss to accoanttor Brius, which 
hath evidently been changed in. the. 
dative case to Butve ; and they have uni- 
versally rendered it a Bridge, ora Ford, 
But no proof more is necessary, than the 
explanation here given, to show that they 
have been, in this word, all mistaken: 
and it will be sufficient, if more proof be 
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required, to say, that at Danstable, no 
Water, no Bridge, nor Ford, is to be 
found; and that the befere-mentioned 
appellation of the Plain Land Hill suits 
exactly its situation, > 9. > bagel 
Of the translation Dunstable we 
must-next speak ; but uf Dun, much has 
lately been written: much more, Mr, 
Editor, than necessary for any purpose, — 
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