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 Chap. L OF MANCHESTER, 17 ticity. But fee this confirmed by a variety of external tefti- monies in Dr. Blair's Critique on Oflian, 2d edit. The whole body of the Highland Scots are living witneffes of their authenticity. — 7 Quis rotuodam facere cetram nequit? Varro; Herodian lib. iii. c. 47 ; Tacitus Agric. Vit. c. 36 ; Offian's Poems vol. I. p. 206 ; and St a this Silv. lib. v. hunc regi rapuit thoraca Britanno. Each fpear (fays Dio p. 1281) had a brazen apple at the end, which was fhaken in order to terrify the enemy with the noife. I have converfed (fays Dr. Macpherfon in Crit. Diff. p. 144. Lond. 1768) with fome old Highlanders who have feen fpears of that conftru&ion. The apple was called Cnap- ftarra, a bofs of brafs ; and the fpear was denominated Trini- framma, the. Framea probably of the* Germans. — t Agric. Vit. c. 36. — 9 Gordon's Itin. Sept. p. 52* and Plate, and Horfeley's Scotland No. 3. — '* Hearne's Leland vol. I ; Mona Antiqua p. 86. 2d edition ; Plott's Staffbrdfhire p. 403 ; Leigh's Lanca- shire b. I. p. 18 ; Stukeley's Abury p. 27 ; and Borlafe's Corn- wall b. III. ch. xiii. Dr. Borlafe derives the name of Celt from Caelo to engrave : Unde (fays he) Caeltis vel Celtis, quafi An En- graving Tool, p. 283. edit. 1760. Such are fometimesthe little fooleries of learning.— 11 See Hearne's Leland and Plott's Stafford- shire ibid., Stukeley's Stonehenge p. 46, Carte's Hiftory vol. I. p. j$, and Borlaie b. III. ch.xiii. — '* The wood feemed to be yew. And fee ch. vi. fe&. 2. and ch. iv. feft. 1. of b. I. — ,3 Camden c. 1263. Gibfon for the head of a brazen axe found in a cairn, and Stukeley's Stonehenge p.46,— u Dugdale's Warwickfhire p. 778. edit. 1 ft, Stukeley's Itin. Cur. p. 54, and Plott's Staffordshire p. 397. — ■» See the battle-axe of a Gaul mentioned by PJutarch vol. I. p. 315. Bryan's edition : and fee vol. II. p. 514. But in Montfaucon's 1* Antiquity Expliqu^e, tome cinquieme, p. 194 and 195, is an account of a plainly Gallic monument opened in France, in which were found about twenty fculls, and as many ftones fhaped into axes under them. One was an oriental ftone ftudded with filver. And ftone-axes are alfo found frequently in other parts of France (p. 196 and 197), as ftone-weapons in general are often difcovered in Germany (p. 198). And ftiajrp D and