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

THE EHITONS ASSERTED. C^
tended, as I have iliewri already in the HlHory
of Mancheder, oVer Kent and a fmall part of
Middlefex, over Suffex and the greateft part of
Hampflih-e and Wiltfliire, over Ddrfetfliire, De-
Tonfliire, and a part of CornwalU And he fnb*
dued the red of Middlefex and all Effex, all
Surrey, the red of Hampfliire, and the adjoin-
ing parts of Berkfiiire, the red of Wiltfnire, the
remainder of Cornwall, all Somerfetdiire, and the
South-Wed of Gloncederdiire '.—The jera of
theBelgic migration into Britain then is hererf-
certained, and fhewn to have been, not " half a
*' century,'* but three centuries, " prior to the
*' afrivai of Ccefar." And Divitiacus isdiewn not
to " have tranfplanted from Gaul thofe tribes in
'' Britain over whom he reigned," but only to
have brought over an army, and to have only
made fome additions to the previous pofleffions
• of the Bel'^ce.
This is the fiiort fum of Mr. Macpherfon^s argument
fbr a third colony in Britain. As the proof
of a Belgic eflablifhment in the ifland, the ar-
* Hilloiy ofMancheHer, p, 60— 6 r, and 412—413.
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