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 4+8 THE HISTORY ^ Book! and -penetrating i»to Maxima, and jointly beginning the great ^era of calamities which appears ib fadly confpicuous in the fuc- <eeding hiftory af Roman Britain of Lancashire and of Man- cheiier. 1 Richard p. 43. and Ptolemy.—* Richard's Map, — * Richard 9 s Map. This ihews the Ifamnum Promotltorium and the. Vinde- rius flu. to have been tranfpofcd in Ptolemy. Laberus derived its name afluredly, not, as Baxter has wildly deduced it, from Lhavar Sermo vel Concio, but from Labhar the chara&eriftick of a rWer, fignifying Noify, and importing its fttuation on a river.— 4 Eblana muft have been alfo fpoken D-Eblana, as we have Avon and D-Avon for the fame appellation ; and Eb-lan or Deb-Ian fignifies the Fortrefs on the Water.—** Richard and Ptolemy for Modona and Menapia, and the biographers of Saint Patrick for Shnus. — 6 Richard's Map.— 1 Richard's Map. — * Pto- lemy.— 9 Ptolemy and Richard's Map.—* Richard's Map.*— Pto- lemy calls them Erdinii. — " Richard's Map and Ptolemy.*— inaccuracies in it. And Dr. Stukeley's Copy has more. The river Buvinda, which is given in Richard's description to the Voluntii and muft have been their fbuthern boundary, is given in Richard's Map to the Eblani, and thefe are planted to the north as well as to the Couth of it. The fbuthern border of the Eblani, which muft affuredly have run along the Liffy, is car- ried below it. The fbuthern border of the Gaucii, which was certainly along the Oboca, is alfo carried below it. The Cori- ondii are placed too far to the weft. The Menapii are carried to the Barrow. The Brigantes are pufhed beyond it. And the Scoti, who ihould be all to the eaft of the Shannon, are all placed to the weft of it. Dr. Stukeley has copied moil of thefe xniftakes, and added others. He has fuffered moil: of the names to be disfigured by die negligence of the engraver, Vodia? being changed into VocJiae, Sena into Lena, Argita ioto Argela, Da* raboaa into Danaebona, &c. He has omitted feveral names an4 z places;
 * Offian voL iL p. 36* — u Richard's Map of Ireland has fome