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 290 THE HIST OR Y Book L and Camden c. cxiv. Gibfon.— * 9 Camden clafs 1. N° 6 9 1 1 — 16, 25, 31, and others. — 3 ° See Camden c. 671, 374, and 877 for London, Chefter, and York, and Stukeley's Caraufius vol.1, p. 66 &c. for Richborough, p. 96 for Colchefter, p. 276 and 277 for Lincoln, p. 253 for Claudia, Gloucester, and pi. 12. N° 1. for Verulam. — lJ Strabop.306. — **TacitusAnn. lib.xiv. c.31. — "Dio p. 1 003.— ,4 Iam forry to obServe,thatMr.Pegge has fullied hisufeful treatife on the Coins of Cunobeline with a rude ftri&ure on the late Dr. Stukeley. Let the extravagancies of Dr. Stukeley be. alt correfted. They ought to be. But let not his chara£ter be held up to the public as the mere fantaftical enthufiafi of anti- quities. This juftice, gratitude, and politenefs equally concur to forbid. His Strong intelleft, his enterprizing fpirit, and his extenSive learning muft ever be remembered with refpefit and re- verence. And even his extravagancies* great as they are, muft be confidered as the occasionally wild colouring- of that bright ray of genius which has not yet been too frequently the portion of our EngliSh antiquarians, and which never feduces the dull critic either into excellencies or into extravagancies* IL THE primaeval Britons of Lancashire and the reft of the ifland, whatever hiftory has aflerted or antiquarianifm believed of both, were not unacquainted with the mechanical arts in general. This their ability to conftruft the military chariots of their country is a fufficient indication in itfelf. The primaeval Britons of Lancashire and the reft of the ifland were even intimately ac- quainted with two or three of the mechanical arts in particular. This the ingenioufnefs of the contrivance and the neatnefs of the execution in the Britifh chariots fufficiently demonstrates. Thefe cars were even admired by the Romans, were adopted by individuals for their journeys, and were introduced by the public into their races And we have the picture of one of them Sketched out by a Britifh hand and engraved upon a British coin
 * 7 P e gg e P- 84 and Thorefby's Mufeum p. 337. — al Borlafe p. 250