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that Ur in Tybur, was changed to OF in 
Piwoli. Ur means border land, land, 
‘er border; and as Ur is only a variation 
ef Er, border; so ULis only a variauon 
ef Kd, in Fabel, or Vaole, ‘Lhe word 
Fabel, or Table, may thereiore imply 
éhe-Piain Land; and Dunstadie will be 
an exact transiation of Durecobrius. I 
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shail just add, that we have a Luble fill 
at the Cape of Good Hope ; and that the 
situation of Barnstaple is on a plain cor- 
responding exactly with the explanation 
here given to Ladle. 
The term Mad, in Madning Bower, or 
BMadhin or “Maiden Bower; and in 
 Madning Money; (names given 10’ the 
old camp on this plain, and to the money 
found there, the explanations of which 
are unknown,) is derived from Madh, a 
hill, or plain: Ning, In, and En, imply, 
as willbe shown, land. The name Bad- 
Rin, Madin, or Adaden Bower, may be 
deriven from Ber, or Bor, border; or it 
may be a corruption of Burg, a fort or 
village. n| 
the full or plain land border or fort: 
Madning Money the hill, or plain land 
money, But enough ef Durocobrius, ts 
camp, and its money: we next arnve at 
eur fitth station, 
Magio-vinniw. Magh, Gaelic for a 
plain, may be derived from the root 
Aighe, a hill; and may be rendered hill, 
er pia. The Ictter Mis often prefixed 
to terms of magnitude in description ; 
and it will be wortby of remark, that 
many of tlie roots for huis aud plains 
are the same. ‘Phe reascu of this strange 
evincidence is, that many words imply 
depth as well as height; and that the 
tops of hills, or elevated lands, as well as 
bottoms, often contain level grounds. 
Vin, in Magio-vinnio, is written Nen in 
Magio-ninniam, and Im in Magintum: 
all of which are names for this station. 
When a syllable ends with a vowel, and 
a vowel is to begin anotiier, a consonant 
3s generally prefixed im old names. ‘Thus 
the Trino-antes are generally | written 
Trinohantes, and Trmovantes. ‘The 
syllables Vin, Nin, and In, are, from 
what has been said, synonymes, audeach 
implies land.—But the present. name Is 
saidto be, the Auld Fields, or the Old 
Fields,‘and to be at alittle distance trom 
Fenny Stratford. ‘There is in Devon a 
parish named Hennock, written m 
Doomsday Book dinech, and Hanceh: 
a celevrated etymulogist, finding Hen, mn 
Welch, to mean eld; and Cxuoc, in Inish, 
to imply Hill; rendered Hennock, old 
Hill: but be searched not for the new 
i sy . = T f ° ° 
Derivation of Naines tn Antoninus. 
Maiden Bower will then imply - 
places, many became towns of accon- 
ones. This place was derived from the 
Gaelic word, Aorzach; and we might 
render it the Market, as the word Séeble 
is usually rendered ; fer Aonach also im- 
plies a market: but in description of 
places, although we must have recourse 
to their features, we need not enquire 
whether they are old or young, nor whe- 
ther in ancient times they had’ markets 
or fairs, Aonach is said, by Gaelic 
writers, to imply Hill; but Gaelic writers, 
like antiguaries, seldom analyse their 
own woras: for Aonach means Hill 
Land, and describes the land of Hennock. 
The Saxon translation, Auld Fields, was 
derived from, Magh, a plain, or field; 
Vin, Laid, was mistaken for Fion, Old; 
and the misapplication of the terms, as a 
translation of Magintum, is evident; and 
yet it is obvious, that Maygio-vinnio was the 
name from whence Old Fields was de- 
rived. 
Camps, forts, towns, villages, and 
resting-places, took the ancient names 
of lands on which they stood; and hence 
we have seldom any particular names for 
these in very ancientappellations. The 
fApril 1, 
word Ton, originally Land, was trans-. 
ferred to the erections upon it. Ais, 
Gaelic for a hill, is also the name of a 
fort. The word Ham, originally Border, 
has been termed yillage, town, We. 
Cosan implies a ‘vot-way: in which Cos 
is foot; and An, the land or road. Greas- 
lann is an inn; and this word means 
literally a guest-house, in whieh Lanz 
imphes land, as well as house. I have 
in a former letter stated, that in the 
word Armin, Arm implies the army, and 
In the land or road ; and this road was 
constructed for the army. Hence then 
words for land were chosen for names of 
roads, ana of inus: and In, or Inn, too 
was thus chosen, for an Jnn-House im- 
plies a road-house.—Further, Vzn, or 
Ven, being synonymes of Jnr, this would 
naturajly imply the same. To the ending 
in n, a ¢ was often added; and hence 
Ven would become Vent. To the strong 
ending in é, the letter a was often post- 
fixed, to recover the voice from dwelling 
on the syllable: Ta was also a plural 
ending. Hence Venta is an inn in the 
Spanish, as well asin the Gaelic; and in 
the Spanish, it also means a sale. Tn 
English we say that we want a Vent 
for our gaods, when we wanta sale, or 
a place of sale, for them. From the 
ventas in Spain being inns, or resting 
modation, passage, trade, &c. and a 
ereat numberof towns in that kingdom 
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