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XXIV.—On the Identification of the Roman Portus Lemanis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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On the 23rd of November last, I took occasion, in the course of some remarks on Dr. Thurnam's paper on the Wiltshire Long Barrows, to mention the titles of some papers which I had in my mind to communicate to this Society in the course of the present session; one of them was, “On the Roman Ports in Kent and Sussex.” Immediately afterward I was surprised by a discourse, pronounced in your hearing, by Mr. Lewin, who undertook to identify Hythe with the “Portus Lemanis.” My own views of the subject being quite at variance with the theory of that learned gentleman, I would have delivered myself, on the spot, of the sentiments which I entertained respecting his communication, while it was fresh before us; but the time was then too far advanced to permit a discussion, and the present date was therefore assigned to me as a peremptory term for answering the case set up by the learned advocate of Hythe.
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page 376 note a Compare the gateway, with small conical towers, on the reverse of a Roman coin, figured in Mr. C. K. Smith's work on Lymne, p. 249.
page 376 note b New Port, or New Haven, described as distant 1° W. in longitude, and 30′ S. in latitude, from κἀνιον ἅkappa;rho;ν, the South Foreland; while Hythe and Lymne are distant very few minutes of a degree from that promontory.
page 379 note a Leland, as quoted by Mr. C. E. Smith, except the explanations within parentheses.