The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. i6s
of INIanchefter. And all the region of Valentia
remained in the pofleffion of the R.omans, to the
period of their departure from Britain ^.
P. 100. '^ Lolliu3 Urblcus, in the reign of
" Antoninus Pius, defeated the Caledonians ; and,
driving them beyond the Forth and Clyde,
excluded them by an earthen Wall from the
Roman Britain. Though repelled by Urbi-
cus,—they were far from being reduced fo low
as to yield a pait of their territories to the Ro-
mans.**
This is a great miftake. The Brigantes, or Ca-
ledonians, are exprefsly faid by Paufanias to have
lofl: a confiderable tra£l: of country, tj^i/ t^toXX'/jv,
to the Romans at this period. And I have
fliewn in the Hiftory of Manchefter, that this
conlifled of half the region of Caledonia -.
P. loi— 102. " Severus — marched north-
*' ward, with a fixed refolution to exterminate the
*' the whole nation of the Caledonians. But—he
*' was at lad reduced to the old and inglorious
*' expedient of building a Wall to exclude from
' Hiftory of Manchefter, p. 4^^—^58.
* P. 454—461, and 418—419.
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