Jews Walk, and the Grove at Upper Sydenham, are adjacent to Peak Hill, which, in all probability, was once upon a time Puck's Hill, and the wooded heights of Sydenham were in all likelihood a caer _sidi_, or seat of fairyland. My chair is prepared in Caer Sidi The disease of old age afflicts none who is there. . . . . . . . . . . . About its peaks are the streams of ocean And above it is a fruitful fountain. Sir John Morris-Jones points out that _sidi_ is the Welsh equivalent of the Irish _sid_, "fairyland"[475] and he connects the word with _seat_. In view of this it is possible that St. Sidwell at Exeter was like the River Sid at Sidmouth, a _caer sidi_, or seat of the _shee_. Sydenham, like the Phoenician Sidon, is probably connected with Poseidon, or Father Sidon, and Rhode the son of Poseidon may be connoted with Rhadamanthus, the supposed twin brother of Minos. Near Canterbury is Rhodesminnis, or Rhode Common,[476] and on this common Justice was doubtless once administered by the representatives of Rhadamanthus, who was praised by all men for his wisdom, piety, and equity. It is said that Rhode was driven to Crete by Minos, and was banished to an Asiatic island where he made his memory immortal by the wisdom of his laws: Rhode, whose name is _rhoda_, the rose or Eros, is further said to have instructed Hercules in virtue and wisdom, and according to Homer he dwells not in the underworld but in the Elysian Fields. [Illustration: A. POSTERN GATE. B. DECUMAN GATE. C. TOWER. D. CIRCULAR TOWER. E. & F. TOWERS. G. SITE OF RETURN WALL. H. SITE OF TOWER. I. SURFACE OF SUBTERRANEAN BUILDING. FIG. 261.--From _A Short Account of the Records of Richborough_ (W. D.).] A rose coin of Rhoda was reproduced _ante_, page 339; the _rhoda_ or rose, like the _rood_, is a universal symbol of love, and with Rodau's Town, Canterbury, or Durovernon, which is permeated with the rose of St. George, or _Oros_, _i.e._, _rose_, may be connoted the neighbouring _Rutu_piae, now Richborough. From the ground-plan of this impressive ruin it will be seen to be unlike anything else in Europe, inasmuch as it originally consisted of a quadrangle surrounding a massive rood or cross imposed upon a titanic foundation.[477] With Rutupiae, of which the _Rutu_ may be connoted with the _rood_ within its precincts, Mr. Roach Smith, in his _Antiquities of Richborough_, connotes the Gaulish people known as the Ruteni. The same authority quotes Malebranche as writing "all that part of the coast which lies between Calais and Dunkirk our seamen now call Ruthen," whence it is exceedingly likely that the Reading Street near Broadstairs, and the Rottingdean near Brighton were originally inhabited by children of Reada or Rota.