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 3 22 THE HISTORY Book I., it the original Englifli, are enriched by the Roman, both have naturally received a much greater fupply from the colloquial and the later Latinity than from the written and the claffical;. many truly Roman words particularly occurring in the Britifh and Englifh, which either do not appear at all or appear very differ- ent in the prefent remains of the Roman. 1 F. 161 Sayille.— * See Arpennis in SpelmanV Gloflary.— ^ 3 Bede's Eccl. Hift. lib. i. c i. Smith.— * Diodorus p. 3.50 »—- 5 Ibid. — 6 Offian vol. i. p. 116. — 7 Tacitus Agric* Vit. c. 12. — Britannis — -permifit ut vites haberent vinumque conficerent— • Bede lib. L c» 1.— IO Spelman in Arpennis and Camden p^ 319^ xx Malmefbury f. 161. — " Diodorus p. 350. — "Pliny lib*, xiv. c. I.— 14 Ibid, c* 3. — ls Pliny lib. xiv. c. 6.— I6 Ibid* lib. xiv. c. 2* 17 Solinus c* 21. — 18 Lib* xiv- c. 14. — l9 C 6, 14, and 3, — p. 993, 923, 924, and 90 1.— " Sicera — quae — conficitur— Pq- morum Succo :, Hieron.. torn., iv* c. 264., Paris 1-70.6*.. V.. TFTE genuine bteed of the Britifh hocfes mud have fire* quently run wild in the woods and mountains of the ifland,. as. thou fends at the ppefent period expatiate in a ftafce of abiblute freedom along the great bafe* of the fouthera continent of Ame» rica, and as numbers ftill range along the. hills of Scotland- and the foreft of Hampfhire. The genuine breed of the Britifh horfes was at once diminutive in, its (ize and fwift in> its- mo- tions This, breed ftill evidently fubfifts among us in the gar* rans-of Scotland, in the ponies of Wales,, and in the wild hob* bies of fome forefts in England. And this appears to have, been improved into, the much larger race 0/ our. grefent hories,by the:
 * Vopifcus's life of Probus c. i&. Gallis omnibus et Hifpanis ac
 * VC 16, — ai Pliny lib. xiv. c. 16. and Palladius (Gefner 1735)