Britannia, hampling on the Badges of Superstition & Mavery Prists her History &c. on the basis of Liberty. Tublished as the Act directs by C.Law. Avemaria Lane. AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAN D; FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND. BY DR. GOLDSMITH.. AND CONTINUED BY AN EMINENT WRITER TO THE PRESENT PERIOD. THE TWELFTH EDITION. LONDON: Printed for W. J. and J. RICHARDSON, R. BALDWIN, By Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell. THE HISTORY ENGLAN D. CHAP. I. OF BRITAIN, FROM THE INVASION OF JULIUS BRITAIN THE ROMANS. RITAIN was but very little known to the rest of the world before the time of the Romans. The coafts oppofite Gaul were frequented by merchants who traded thither for fuch commodities as the natives were able to produce, and who, after a time, poffeffed themselves of all the maritime places where they had at first been permitted to refide. Finding the country fertile, and commodiously fituated for trade, they fettled upon the fea-fide, and intro duced the practice of agriculture. But the inland inhabitants of the country, who confidered themselves as the lawful poffeffors of the foil, avoided all correfpondence with men, whom they viewed as intruders upon their property. The inland inhabitants are represented as extremely nu merous, living in cottages thatched with ftraw, and feeding 1426 3.99 13. B 621928 large |