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 3o THE HISTORY Book I. march, and perpetually attacked the mimerotis parties of the enemy that were lurking in them ; while the larger ctetachments or the main body pushed into the inmoft receffes of their forefts, ftormed their fortifications, and facked their cities Of thefe the city of Mancenion from its foutherly pofition muft have been very early expofed to the fury of the Romans. And in vain did it prefent to their arms the fteep and fcarped mound of its rivu- let, the rifing eminence of its bank, and the broad extent of its deep ditch. Terrified by the vigour with which Agricola pur- fiied the war, and allured by the kind offers which- he made them of peace, the Siftuntii and their northern neighbours fub- mitted, and gave up forne of their chieftains as hoftages 1 Tacitus Vit. Agric. c. xvii. Magnam Brigantum partem aut vi&oriS amplexus aut bello. In this author, who wrote only a little while before Ptolemy, Magna Brigantum pars muft refer to the whole of the proper Brigantes, who are mentioned only as a part in relation to the weftern or fubjeft Brigantes.— Agricolae c. xx. Loca caftris ipfc capere, seftuaria ac fylvas ipfc praetentare, et nihil interim apud hoftes quietum pati quo minis fubitis excurfibus popularetur ; atque ubi fatis terruerat, parc6ndo rurfus irritameiita pacis oftentare. The word interim oppofed sto ipfe plainly implies fbme operations diftinfl: from thofe of the main army; as the claufe, Nihil apud hoftes quietum pati qud .mimlks fubitis exajrfibus popularetur, reprefents the Siftuntii to have confined tbemfelves to the woods and morafles, and to have fceeu there attacked by Agricola's detachments. And the word seftuaria conne&ed with ipfc plainly {hews the operation of the rnain army to have l>een directed along the coafts.— 5 Tacitus •c. xx. Ubi fatis tqmicrat, parcendo rurfus irritamenta pacis often- tare. Quibus rebus nwltae civitates quae in ilium diem ex asqufc iigerant datis jobfi^ibuc iram pofu£re. w ft c a A- 1*.
 * See Horfeley p* 47. - 3 See b. I. ch. v. feft. 4. — 4 Tacitus Vit.