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QUERY1850

Latin Names of Towns

By M. (Kilkenny)

A correspondent who answered the Query as to the "Latin Names of Towns" in titles, referred your readers to the Supplement of Lemprière. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should know that the information therein given must only be taken as suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest gazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries, the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The first informs us that "Næostadium *in Palatinatu*" is in "France;" the third th…

Topics: Latin Names of Towns, Gazetteers

Locations: France, Ceylon