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 .CfoftJII. of tfA^MitslrfiR. « 9 rOid~of ttof Iceni. Dbt as a mfe'rely^ RdfnMi foard would fcarcely hate: iteceiv&l' &hf Appellation- that' related to tHef Iceni, as a merely Rtomfcit road would a(Tu redly ha^a received 1 no appella- tion at all that related to the unconquered the' unattempted ' Irilh, fori merely Roman road could certainly have rifcver re- ceived the> appellation either' of Guethelitt or of Ileenihj' thefe words bring a&uedly the Britifh plurals of Guethcl and of Ikeri Such road* indeed* as the Romans primarily ccwaft rafted within the ifland v liker the* i brttefles df the lame origin, arfe plainly di-r fHnguifhod from fuch as they found' already cofcftrufted by the obvious difcrimiriatione of their, nimes. If from the Itinerary « of Richard J aiid the voice of tradition we have the Britifh names of Guethellug ani4; lkttMng for two roads,- from the fame Iti- nerary and the fame tradition we have the Roman names of the Julian way and the Fofle for two others 5 . And the former are as evidently evinced to be. Britifh as the latter are to b4 Roman. Thw wete thefe two great roads originally undertaken and executed bfefore the invafion of the Romans ; undertaken for the ' purpofee of Britifh conveniency,. and executed in the ftiteaf. Bdtifh fiiT>pHcity. Both muft. have been begun by the'Belgae of the foutherti countries, and, what is very extraordinary, > botK appear plainly to have been actually begun from the fouth. Till the^ Belgw came over into Britain, either no commerce at all was purfued by the iflanders, or the commerce was confined to a few promontories on the fouth-weft and a few veficis: from Phoenicia. The Belga* were. ftrongly actuated by a commercial fpirit, and purfued its dire&ions fo vigorously, that, within >a cen- tury from * their firft' entrance into the ifland/ the moft wefterly r tribes of them certainly carried on a confiderable commerce with « the Phoenicians, and all of them afterwards a much more con- fiderable one with the Romans of Narbonne and the Greeks of Marfeilles V In confequence of the latter, the native commodi-- ties of the ifland in the time of Auguftus were, regularly export- - ed into Gaul,, afcd conveyed by bargee upon the rivets or by horfes upon the roads acrofs the Gallic cootinent to both 8 ; And I at. this period the Belgse mull have contrived and the Britons- muft /