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 3 66 r HE HISTORY Book £ from them " And not only the Beigit but the aboriginal Bri- tons were engaged in thta employ* The mines of the SBUj isles were worked by Che one* and the riches of the Peak wete col led ed by the other l The lead-ore hef mach mare, obvious to the. notice and ranch more acceifible to the labour of the in* habitants, than either the if On or the copper.. The lead wa* equally found at this period in France and in Spain. But fch* fearch for k in both countries was attended with much greater trouble and expence than fr w& hr Britain* Here vein* of it ky immediately below the fnr&ce erf the .ground; and branched ent in fo great an abundance, that a vcary Abort period before die redu&ion of LancaAire, conquered as tfee Britons of Stilly aw? of the Peak had then both be** by the ftonuns, bat ftiil jfiib« je&ed* » I have iaad before^ to the kgifletrt* authority of their refpe&iv* fovereigfts, a law w*t made by tthe kings to rtftrift f he working of the mines and t» prevent the mnJkmtkimg of the market *• With this itaetal the priaavvai ftritoaa tempered the ferafc of their ikilleu their arms and their cms* And with thrr therefore they rauft have made many' of their ddneflic veflek* Lead and tin were fee irttrtl age* the eaty meeefe that they had within themfelvet* And when the Jtothane enleMd the county of Chefter they fownd the metid very ptattifel among the inhabitants* and railed a rudely megntfidti* tfcophy with it* 4aing more that* twenty infetibtd piates upo»potea, andeteft* mg them e» the &smL wheke the? bed defeated tbt Ibi* The fia of the B«t*n« *m» t W soft fttmftteU* pr64u&afr ef their ifland. FowHd both iftSpai* a«& m P*rttfg»l, it *•» ftfturf flMtch more j>fo*ifo% k Britain. 'V B«mg coUdM h» «be ftnd or gfobe* it **» paritied with watev ft*f» the adk«tff*{ «afth, waft fofed ifc theif ft* Mac*}, and wm tafOa in*©- figures ' This th« £ FiouBval Britott i* all frababitityv this the Roman Bucoas aaoft afluredly y wetked uf-imt*maa? dtiineftie utenfris* cups, batons, and pitchers. Some fuch have been fafcly trau£ ^Kitted •»- the preieat age; A bafea ••£ this mMMtf ft vet* tva» fimutd *few £ea*s.age i» CenwraU, four wcW aft* aft half ia diameter