t ^73 1 



Julius C/e$ar,* fpeaking of the manners of* 

 the Girmans in their rude uncultivated (late, makes 

 die following inftr^dlive obfervations, which are' 

 applicable indeed to all peopk in fimilar circum- 

 llances : 



' Agriculture they difregard; their diet confift- 



* ing chiefly in milk, cheefe, and flefli: for none 

 ' of them have any certain quantity of ground, 



* or even country, which they can call their own. 

 'But their magiftrates and chiefs allot, for one 



* year only, among the fcattered inhabitantsf and 



* their tribes who aflbciate together, fuch a por- 



* tion of land, and in fuch a diftrifl:, as they think 



* proper; and then oblige them to refide at fome 



* other place for another year. They alDgn feve- 



* ral reafons for this condudt:— That th<f people 



* might nat be induced to exchange the ftudy of 



* war for that of hufbandry; — that they might 

 ' not wifli to increafe their fettlements, and fo the 



* llronger expel the weaker from their pofleflions; 

 ' that they might not credl any buildings, except 

 ' barely to keep out heat and cold; &c/ 



• De BcU. Gall. lib. vlf cap. aa. 



t Gemibus. On this word, ft ». « j , ^. .v .ouscriticifim of the MontUf 

 Reviewers, in their account of IIoldTworthV remarks on Virgil, for 

 June 1768, p.4a^ 



A country 



