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Bar is ufually followed by a fécond Bar, ftîll more elevated, 

 ^'hîch purfues it at the diftance of about a hundred fathom. 

 They run much fafter than a horfe at full fpeed. 



(11) The Druids fxnour thefe Dhlnities. Refpefting the man- 

 Tiers and mythology of the ancient Nations of the North, Hero- 

 dotus may be confulted, the Commentaries of Cefar^ Suetoviusf, 

 Tacitus, the Eda of Mr. Mallet, and the Swedifh Colleftions, 

 tranflated by the Chevalier de Keralio. 



(12) He is excluded from the communion of their myjle^ies. Cefar 

 fays precifely the fame thing in his Commentaries. 



(13) They oroerlay plates of iron luith tin. The Laplanders un~ 

 derftand the art of wire-drawing tin to a very high degree of per- 

 feftion. There is, in general, an extreme ingenuity diftinguifh- 

 able in all the arts pradifed by favage Nations, The canoes and 

 the raquettes of the Efquimaux ; the pros of the illanders of the 

 South-Sea ; the nets, the lines, the hooks, the bows, the arrows, 

 the ftone hatchets, the habits, and the head-dreflès of moft of 

 thofe Nations, have the moft exa<^ conformity with their necef- 

 iities. Pliny afcribes the invention of calks to the Gauls. He 

 praifes their tin-ware, their dying in wood, &c. 



(14) She is cmdemned to the flames. See Cefars Commentaries. 



(15) Afcrihe to theîufomething divine. Confiilt Tl/ci/aj on the 

 manners of the Germans. 



(16) For her- fon Sfvne. The Gauls, as well as the Nations 

 of the North, called y'enus, Siofnc, and Cupid, Sifone. Confult 

 the Eda. The moft formidable weapon among the Celtse, was 

 neither the bow, nor the fword, but the cmlafs. They armed the 

 Dwarfs with if; who, thus equipped, triumphed over the fword 

 of the Giants. The enchantment made with a dagger was inca- 

 pable of being dilTolved. It was fit, therefore, that the Gaulifli 



Cu^id 



