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

2i6 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
thefe migrations they did not eftablifli tliemfelves
in Brctagne only. The greatcft number
palled over under Maximus ' ; and thefe were
difperfed in the many regions that extend a
ftagno quod eft fuper verticem Monris Jovis
ufque ad civitatem quas vocatur Cantguic, from
the great St. Bernard in Piedmont to Cantavic
in Picardy, and from Picardy to the weftern
coall: of France -. And the refugees, that were
driven away by the Saxon invafion, appear to
have equally difperfed themfelves into different
parts of the conrinent, tranfmarinas regiones pe-
tivere. In both expeditions, however, a body of
them feems certainly to have planted themfelves
in the prefent Bretagne s. But they never fixed
the name of Britanni on the continent. It was
there ages before either migration. Dionyfius
the Geographer, and Piiny the Naturalift, both
fpeak of the Britanni, as the name of a tribe on
the borders of Picardy and Flanders 4. And
Bi;itannia, the capital of the tribe afluredly, was
one of the moft celebrated cities in Gaul, as
early as the diys of Hannibal 5. Armorica is
marinas petebant regiones; Bede, 1. i. c, 15. the fame; and
Eginhard in Ann. Franc. Ufher, p. 226. edit. 16S7.
' Gildas, c. 1 1. ingenti juventute. ^ Nennius, c. 23.
The common copies read Tiintguic, but the Cotton ]MS.
Cantguic. And for Cantavic fee Carte, V. I. p. 25. a note.
' Carte, V. I. p. 269, from Lovvarch, and the u'riters in
Un-.er, p. 326. * Carte, p. 5.
* Ibid, a note.
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