"De Ripa in Flandriam ad _Cuicfal_ velificari potest duobus diebus, et
totidem noctibus; de Cuicfal ad _Prol in Angliam_ duobus diebus et una
nocte. _Illud est ultimum caput Angliæ versus Austrum_, et est
processus illuc de Ripa angulosus inter Austrum et Occidentem. De Prol
in Britanniam ad Sanctum Matthiam, uno die,--inde ad Far, juxta Sanctum
Jacobum tribus noctibus. Inde Leskebone duobus diebus inter Austrum et
Occidentem. De Leskebone ad Narvese tribus diebus et tribus noctibus,
angulariter inter Orientem et Austrum. De Narvese ad Arruguen quatuor
diebus et quatuor noctibus, angulariter inter Aquilonem et Orientem. De
Arruguen ad Barzalun uno die, similiter inter Aquilonem et Orientem. De
Barzalun ad Marsiliam uno die et una nocte, fere versus Orientem,
declinando tamen parum ad plagam Australem. De Marsilia ad Mezein in
Siciliam quatuor diebus et quatuor noctibus, angulariter inter Orientem
et Austrum. De Mezein ad Accharon xiiii diebus et totidem noctibus,
inter Orientem et Austrum, magis appropiando ad Austrum."
We may fairly consider that the stations marked in this itinerary are of
great antiquity. "Prol in Angliam" is, no doubt, Prawle Point, in
Devonshire; a headland which must have been well known to the Veneti long
before the days of Adam of Bremen. Its mention here is one among the many
proofs of the early importance of this coast, the ancient "Littus
Totonesium," the scene of one of Marie's fabliaux, and of some curious
passages in Layamon's _Brut_, which are not to be found in the poem of
Wace. I wish to ask,--