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 ii ADD J TIDN S, &c brance about him, as our fathers are well known to have done even within thefe two hundred years and even in the deep and founderous roads of our iflaad at that period. With an original vigour of body no greater than what they have tranfmitted to their fons, our anceftors obtained from pra&ice what nothing but pra&ice could confer, and what an equal* pra&ire would ecjuai ly confer upon their defendants. P. 28, line 10. for, b. I. ch. x. p. 3, read, b. I. ch. x.f, 3. P. 38. at the end of Note • add this — Aod even the great wall of Scverus in the North appears to have been conftructed upon the fame principles, in a part of the wall that has been opened upon Wall-fell near St. Oiwald's the lower couifes being dlfcovered to be laid in cky, and the upper appearing to be ce* mented with mortar (ice the Map prefixed to Warburton's Vallum Romanum). P. 53. line 25. for, a copy of the handwriting, read, zfpecimtn of the handwriting. P. 92. 1. 30, for, Itin. Cur. p. roB, read, Itin. Cur. p. 105. P. 93. at the end of Note 10 add — The name of Camulus then is a Celtic appellation for Mars, And fuch alfb is Belahicadrus. The late learned Bifhop Lyttelton indeed, v an Eflay publiftied this winter by the Antiquarian Society, has endeavoured to fhew Belatucader to be either a local deity in general or another name for Belenus, Apollo, in particular (Archaeologia vol. i. p. 3©8 — 311)* And an infeription in Horfeley, which is ex- prefsly Deo Marti Belatucadro, dire&ly confronting the courfe of his Lordfhip's argument, he is obliged to fuppofe with Dr. Ward, that fomething has been loft in the infeription, and that it originally ran Deo Marti et Belatucado. But fuch fiippofi- tions are furely very frivolous in their nature, the poor refuge of fyftematic prejudices, and an involuntary acknowledgment of the point oppofed. Belatucadr is plainly from its natural import, Bel At Y Cadr or the King of the Fortrefs, the Britifh appella- tion for the God of Battles. And the aftual addition of Marti to Belatucadro in the Roman-Britifh infeription demonftratively proves it. His Lordfhip and the Do&or however affirm, that the epithet