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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. jj<br />

^ efFed upon <strong>the</strong> manners <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gauls,'* pro-<br />

ducing migrations. And <strong>the</strong>refore <strong>the</strong> Gauls,<br />

according to this reprefentation, had never form-<br />

ed any migrating expeditions before. But ia<br />

p. 9, immediately after <strong>the</strong> words above, we are<br />

told, that " though <strong>the</strong> expeditions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

*' Gauls, fubfequent to <strong>the</strong> fettlement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

" Phoc^ans in <strong>the</strong>ir country, are <strong>the</strong> firil: men-r<br />

" tioned in hiflory, we have reafon to believe<br />

** that <strong>the</strong>y pervaded Europe with <strong>the</strong>ir migrating<br />

*•'<br />

armies in a more remote period <strong>of</strong> antiquity.<br />

And furely <strong>the</strong>fe two reprefentations will not<br />

mingle and unite toge<strong>the</strong>r. <strong>The</strong> introdu6tion <strong>of</strong><br />

an improved agriculture by <strong>the</strong> Gr^ecians ei<strong>the</strong>r<br />

was or was not, in <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's opinion,<br />

<strong>the</strong> original and remotely efficient caufe <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Gallic migrations. If it was, he can have no<br />

reafon to believe, that <strong>the</strong> Gauls pervaded Eu-<br />

rope with <strong>the</strong>ir migrating armies in a remoter pe-<br />

riod <strong>of</strong> Antiquity. And, if it was not, <strong>the</strong> great<br />

and fudden effect, which it is here defcribed to<br />

have had upon <strong>the</strong> manners <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gauls, is all<br />

a delufion and vifion.<br />

This hiflory <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pelafgian refinements Im-<br />

ported into GaUl, and producing migrations<br />

from it, is given us, in order to account for <strong>the</strong><br />

name <strong>of</strong> Cehoe being affixed to <strong>the</strong> general body<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Weft-Europeans. And <strong>the</strong> migrations,<br />

occafioned by <strong>the</strong> improved {late <strong>of</strong> agricul-<br />

ture, are faid tQ have carried <strong>the</strong> colonies and<br />

G name

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