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manner of the Gauls, and abounds in cattle.* 

 And from his way of speaking of foraging, 

 it is sufficiently evident, that in the part where 

 he was, the land was extensively cultivated. 

 Indeed he plainly says, a little further on, that 

 * the inhabitants of Kent,* that is almost the 

 only people he had seen, * differed Uttle in their 

 manners from the Gauls.* 



It is true, he also says, that * the greater part 

 of those who live in the interior, never sow their 

 lands, but live on flesh and milk and go clad in 

 skins/ but this statement must be considered as 

 resting on the report of others, Caesar himself 

 having merely passed through Kent and Mid- 

 dlesex and to near St. Albans, only twenty-one 

 miles from London. And we shall see that this 

 statement, made by Caesar, on the reports of 

 others, respecting the interior, is not confirmed 

 by the Romans themselves, when they afterwards 

 penetrate into it. What Caesar thought of the 

 inhabitants of the parts which he had himself 

 seen, of their numbers, intelligence, courage 

 and resources, is cleaily proved by the prepara- 

 tions he made for his second expedition. 



Of those veteran troops, formed in his struggles 

 with, or rather his conquest of, the Gauls, he 

 thought it necessary to bring over five legions 



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