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' all circumstances considered, it is likely the Gauls took possession 

 of this neighbouring soil ;' in universum tamen aestiinanti, Gallos vi- 

 cinum solum occupasse, credibile est.®^- 



And accordingly, notwithstanding the long interval, which oc- 

 curred from the first to the last disembarkation of Gauls in Britain, 

 those Britanno-Gallic descendants may yet be recognized by the 

 agreement in some articles of dress, in the construction and form of 

 their houses, in implements of husbandry, the variety of corn sown, 

 the mode of reaping, thrashing, grinding, and, finally, of sifting 

 its flour."*- 



On the separation of the British Gauls from the parent country, 

 it may fairly be presumed, from the state of nudity in which the 

 British and Picts were found,*^^- that neither the Gauls nor they had 

 known the use of clothing ; for, as savages are neither remarkable 

 for invention, nor for readily relinquishing their acquirements ; and 

 as children are imitative of the attainments of their parents, it may 

 be inferred, that such a luxury, once known, would not have been 

 easily abandoned. The practice, recorded by Diodorus, p. 353, of 

 the Gauls having formerly fought naked, seems to corroborate the 

 opinion. Nor is it unlikely, tiiat before the illuminating dawn of 

 knowledge had opened upon them from the east, they also, as in 

 South and North Britain, had stained their bodies blue with the 

 juice of woad. 



If we turn from those proofs, in which the original appears in the 

 copy, to their instruments of war, Vve shall find them likewise illus- 



65. Sect. 11. Tacit. Agric. vita. 66. Whit. Manch. V. 1. p. 284, &c. 



67. Caesar, Tacitus, and Herodian, &c. 



' As late as the battle of Killicranky, the Highlanders threw off their plaids and short coats, 

 and fought in their shirts.' Whit. Man. V. 1. p. 200. 



' The Scots fought naked at the battle of Mechlen, a province of Brabant.' Scoti nudi 

 pugnabant in prailio Mechliniensi. Famiani Strada; de bello Belgico. 



