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 37 o THE HISTORY. Book I. rows upon Sali(bury Plain difclofing thefe distinguishable remains, and the Poems of Offian prefenting us with a remarkable in- ftance of it, thq burnt bones of horfes dogs and other animals being found mingled with human in the Wiltfliire fepulchers,. and Luath the dog of Cuchullin in the north of Ireland being actually interred with his matter in the third century 49 . of Boadicia the children are faid to be equally in common with their mothers. But this is certainly falfe (Caefar p. 89). — x Mr. Rowland, Mr. Carte, and Dr. Macpherfon have endeavoured to .vindicate the Britons, Mona p. 246, Hiftory p. 71, and Crit. Difl". p. 1 40 ; and all equally in vain. — ' Caefar p.89. — 4 Ta- citus Ann. lib xiv. c. 31. and lib. xii. c. 36,-37, and 40. — * Caefar p. 189.— * Caefar p. 89. — 7 Howel Dha lib. II. c. xv. a. 5.— r 8 Lib. II. c. u a. 93. — 9 Oflian vol. I. p. 50. and 115. — IO Ibid, and Gen. c. xxiv. — " Caefar p.i2r of the Gauls.— ". Lib. II. c. La. 48. And fee Caefar p. 121. for the portion of die Gallic women, — — - 15 P. 300.—^* Lib. IL c. i. a* 40. and lib. II. c. i. a. 73 — 17 Oflian p. 50 apd 77.. vol. I. — ,3 Lib. II. c. i. a. 37. and Hipkes's Pref. to Thefaurus p. 9 — l9 Howel p. 300. — *°Lib. II. c. i. a. 74^ • " Lib. II. c. i. a. 75,— "Lib. IV. c. 5. — 2i Offiaia vol. i. p. 31. land Howel lib. ii. c. I. — * 4 Lib- U. c. u a. 1 2. — * s Tacitus- Ann. •lib. XII. c. 40.— 16 Oflian vol. L p. 31. ~ 27 Gflkn* vol. i. p. 31. and Howel lib* ii. c.i * d.3 and 5. — - 8 Lib. IL c. i. a.6, 1 1, and 1 6. 49 Lib. II. c. u a. 42. This is:fomewliat fimilar to the cuftomfo well known in one or two manors of the. kingdom, by which a widow that had forfeited her copyhold by incontinence was re- ■fiprcd to it oa coming into court mounted upon a blaGk. ram,. holding the tail in 'her hand, and proofing penitence. -*~ 3 ° Lib. H. c. i. a.. 36 and* 3-5-.—. iJ Oflian voL.Lp. 1 15^— 3a Mela for the Gauls cii. lib^?. — " See.alfo Gen. c. xxiii. — 3! - Sfcukeley's Stone-, -benge ^ io.^+- 35 Dio p.. iow.-— 3?, Vol. i. p. 140. &c. — 7 Sjuke— 39 Stonelienger
 * Caefar p. 89. and Dio p. 1007* In p» iooz and the.fpeech
 * 3 Lib. II. c.i. a/ 89. — X+ Lib. II. c. i. a. 13, and c. xxvii. .&. 16.
 * ky c. xo t and Bcrlafe c viii. 1. 3. — 3S Oflkn vol. i. p. 42. —.