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True Site, Kc. of Places in Richard’s Itinerary. 537 
to this, that the sea-coast of Kent was* purport of these words, it should seem, 
called Rutupie, and the neighbouring 
anhabitants Rutupi, which Raihen, they 
Bay, means ** a rotten shore.” 
Regulbium, he derives from Rhag 
before, and Gwylpka watching; or from 
Rheg and Goleu. The first compound 
he renders, ‘‘ihe former watch-tower;” 
the second, * the former light, or hght- 
house,” : 
Rickberough has been said litle ef in 
explanation; but Sumner derives it from 
Hricge Dorsum, which I shall prove in- 
applicable, 
_ For the ancient situation of ‘this 
haven, T must refer to the historians of 
Kent, Rut, rot, or rod, asin Rutland 
und other places, implies a road ; which 
word may be understcod for ships to lie 
in, or for travelling upon. I have ex- 
plained wb and up. Htutken, means the 
road land. 
Rutupie was an haven, with two. en- 
trances or roads, and on each of these 
entrances a hill: the haven having two 
roads, and a hill on each of these en- 
trances; and rué being road, and up or 
wb hill, the piural word Rutupie or 
fiutubie, became the name of these hil! 
roads: and not originally the name of 
two cities, as imagived by our authors. 
In after times, it appears that these hills 
were built upon, and castles and other 
habitations were erected, which took 
names from their situations. Rutupie 
being acommon name for the two ports 
of this haven, it will follow that their 
particular names (as dertresses and 
towns took denominations from situ- 
ations) were nearly the same; and that 
they were only varied by synonymes to 
distinguish them from each other; and 
what, night be added, would be to point 
out their difforing features. Accordingly, 
Rich in Richborough, from Reic or 
Reik, implies a reach or road; and Bo- 
rough the same as Up, to wit, Hill. 
But herein, Berough 13 a name which 
implies great Ill; Richborough will 
therefore mean the Great Hill Road. 
Tn like manner, Reg or Rec in Regul- 
dium, or Reculver, from the same word 
Reic, will imply a reach or road: Ulisa 
synouyme of Up, and may mean Hill, 
by my last letter. The root of the syi- 
Jable Bian is Um or Am, and these are 
frequently rendered in old names Hani, 
which is also border or pomt, Ver in 
Reculver, is also border or point; and 
hence Regulbium or Reculver, will 
imply the Hidl-road Point ; and from the 
' Montuty Mae. No. 200, 
that the hill at Reculver was not’ of 
such magnitude as that at. Rutubis, or 
Richborough; nor might Richborough 
be so,much of a point of land as Ree 
culver. 
But Rutubis was also called by Tacitus 
Trutulum. 
poses, from the Trouts in the harbor, 
* where, (says he) to adopt the words of 
Alain de Lisle, the trout entering 
the salt-water, ts baptised in the sea, and 
assumes the name of salmon.” I have 
already shewn that rut is road; and in 
various instances, Mr. Lhuyd shews that 
Tis only a prefix, and is often omitted 
in the beginning of words. But let us 
Suppose that Z’ means, as authors supe 
pose, inclosed; trut will then, appropri- 
ately enough, imply the inclosed road, as 
the island of Thanet lay in its mouth. 
OF the letter S$, Dr. Harris, on Isaiah, 
says, “that it is sometimes of little sig- 
nification or use, other than to facilitate 
the pronunciation of some who could 
not well get their words out of their 
mouths without the use, and indeed the 
help, of it.” Perhaps this Z’ may have 
been considered by ‘Tacitus as such ano- 
ther letter. 
Rutubis has been supposed to have 
been on an island, from the appearances 
of the lands around it; but I do not re- 
cognise this from any name which I have 
mentioned, Further, in the name Cop- 
street,* nothing can be inferred more 
than a village on the head or hiil road; 
and Cuoper-street, nearly in a line with 
this last towards Rutupis, meant a village 
on the border of the heud road: and in 
these, there is no intimation of an island 
_on which this head stood. 
The word rué being road or ways and 
ub or up, having been used for high, as 
well as Acd/, in the names of Iluces, a 
Ratupian robber, mentioned by Au- 
sonius, unplies, [ conceive, a highway robe 
ber; and not, as, usually understood, a 
robber who had gained his appellation 
from this town. Again, the Romans 
buried their dead by the sides of high- 
ways; and the same author, mentioning 
his uncle Contentus, intimates, that he 
was buried on the high-way border, and 
not, as generally conceived, in the vici-. 
nity of this city. On the propriety of 
these opinions, I must leave you, Mr. 
Editor, ta judge. 
# See Map of Kent. . 
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