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 46* T H £ H 'I S t O R t Book I. he makes Agricola to have fubdued the Orcades, which were riot then inhabited (Soliuus c. 22.). It may be proper at this the clofe of the Roman account to point out fuch variations from any part* of the preceding hiftory as appear in our two beft hrftorians, the faithful heavy and ac- curate Mr. Carte, and the more fuperficial more agreeable and ever fen ti mental Mr. Hume. To- point out the miftakes, is a juftice due to hiftory and myfelf. To point them out with friendlinefs and candor, is a juftice' due to humanity and to literature. And to have mentioned them before would have embarrafled the page, already loaded fufficiently for the fake of authenticity, with an additional number of references and notes. Hume, vol. I. quarto. P. 2. 7- Caefar fays that the Maritima Pars or all the fouthern coaft of the ifland, oppofed to the Pars Interior or the more northerly and inland regions, was acquainted with tillage : Mi Hume has unjuftly confined this knowledge " to the {ays Caefar, not all, but moil of them ; " the other inhabitants, 11 fays Mr. Hume without any reftri&ion ; maintained themfelve3 'by pafturage. — Caefar fpeaks of the ifland at targe, Hominum infinita muf* titudo. Mr. Hume confines the words " to the 1 fouth-eaft parts" again. — «« The Britifh governments, though monarchical, were free," and Diodorus lib. iv, Mela lib. iii. c. 6, and Strabo lib. iv. are •quoted to prove it. " And the common people feem to have '" Gaul," and Dio 1. 75. is cited as authority for it. The mo- narchical nature of the government is all that is aflbrted by the three firft-cited writers. And the J^x^o/k?*' of Dio, which is fpoken particularly of the Caledonians, I have already (hewn to have been a miftake, and may be further (hewn by Martial's two lines, Turpes,
 * " fouth-eaft parts of the ifland/* And Interferes plerique,
 * enjoyed more liberty among them than among the nations of