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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 8^-
thefe particulars, the great and principal ftrokes
of the national character, the Belgce and Bri-
tons univerfally agreed. Several of the latter
likewife concurred with the former in their at-
tention to agriculture, and in wearing garments
of woolen. And the only diftin^lion betwixt
them was one, which was no difference of man-
ners at all ; that the Britons, being diflodged
from that fide of the ifland which was imme-
diately contiguous to Gaul and Spain, and the
only part of it which was vifited by the foreign
traders, were no longer able to purfue the com-
merce which they had previouily carried on, an4
were obliged to refign it up to the Belgse \
P. 34—37. " SiLUREs— , Siol, a race of
** men, Urus, the river emphatically, in allufion
^' to their fituation beyond the Severne.
*' Cantium, Kent, Canti, end of the Ifland.
" Trinobantes, Trion-oban, marihy diftrifl ;
" the inhabitants of Middlefex and Effex,
f* DoBUNi, Dobh-buini, living on the bank of
** the river ; they who of old poffeffed the coun-
*' ty of Gloucefter, alluding to their fituation on
^' the banks of the Severne. — Ordovices,
? Sec Csfar, p. 88—89, and Kill, of BlancheJler, p. 58^
G 3
*' Old-