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yo THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

this to be utterly falfe. Csefar, as I have quoted<br />

him immediatel/ above, exprefsly alTerts <strong>the</strong><br />

feelgce to have been confined to <strong>the</strong> fou<strong>the</strong>rn<br />

coaft. Britannia? /J^rj interior ab iis quos natos<br />

ill uifula ipbS memoriaproditum dicunt: Mariti?na<br />

pars ab iis qui— ex Belgis tranfierant. And fo far<br />

were <strong>the</strong> Belgte from advancing <strong>the</strong>ir poiTeiTions<br />

np to <strong>the</strong> Humbei , th it ihey aftually carried <strong>the</strong>m<br />

very httle beyond <strong>the</strong> Thames'. Thus unhappy<br />

is <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon in every ftep that he takes,<br />

on his entrance upon <strong>the</strong> Interior Hiftory <strong>of</strong><br />

i^ritain.<br />

P. B3— 34- " This fuperior civilization [<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

^* Beigce] rendered <strong>the</strong>m objefts <strong>of</strong> depredation<br />

^* to <strong>the</strong> Cimbri—-. <strong>The</strong>y made frequent incur-<br />

" fions into <strong>the</strong> Belgic dominions ; and it was<br />

*' from that ciicumfl:ance that <strong>the</strong> Cimbri beyond<br />

*' <strong>the</strong> Humber derived <strong>the</strong>ir name <strong>of</strong> Brigantes,<br />

*' which fignifies a race <strong>of</strong> freebooters and pluu-<br />

*' defers (On lui donna ce nom a caufe des pil-<br />

** lages qu'il faifoit fur les terres de fes voifins.<br />

" BRIGAND oil BRIGANT, Brigand, Piilard,<br />

^' Voleur de Grand-Chem.in. Bullet Memoires<br />

^* fur la lang. Celt. torn, i.)." ^<br />

* See Hiftory- <strong>of</strong> Mancheller, p. 412—415.<br />

* So in Dr. Macpherfon <strong>the</strong> Brigantes are interpreted Rob-<br />

Ibejs, p. 112,<br />

<strong>The</strong>

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