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trative of their Gallic descent. ' Animianus Marcellinus, describing 

 a body of Gauls, furnishes them all with battle axes and swords.' ^''■ 

 And those swords, which were aftenvard transferred to Irdand, 

 were, according to Spenser and Whitacre, large, broad, and un- 

 pointed, ^°- and were both Scythian and Gaulish. ' Celts or stone 

 hatchets,' [another proof of their ignorance of iron,] ' and the mi- 

 litary chariot, were derived to the Britons from the Gauls, and in- 

 troduced into the island with the first inhabiters of it.'* And the 

 British chariots had their wheels frequently furnished with scythes 

 like the Gallic.''°- So late as the 13th century, the gesum or heavy 

 javelin, which was pecvdiar to the Gauls, was, according to Brito, 

 used by the British in Wales."'* 



In both countries, oaths were taken on the ensigns or military 

 weapons f^- and, in both, the division of townships was alike."'- In 

 later ages, domestic implements and personal ornaments, the in- 

 vention of their posterity, passed into Britain through the medium 

 of commerce ; but these commodities, which were unknown to the 

 primitive settlers, are foreign to the subject of this treatise. 



THE WELSH NOT CIMBRIANS. 



Mr. Pinkerton"*- considers the Cimbri, whom he affirms to be 

 Goths and from the Cimbric Chersonesus, a congenerous people 



68 Whit. Man. p. 19. and, ' within these four or five centuries, tlie Irish went constantly 

 armed with an axe.' Marcellinus flourished, A. D. 375. 



69 Whit. p. 17. *'Whit. p. 22. For the chariots ih Gaul, see Strabo, p. 306. 



70. Idem, p. 22 And Ma Geoghegan, speaking of the Irish, says, ' Les chariots gtoient 



en usage chez eux, non-seu!ement pour les Toyages, mais aussi pour la guerre ; leurs histoires 

 nous en rapportent plusieurs examples, &c. p. 114. 



71. Pennant's Wales, V. 2. p. 245. 



72. Whit. V. 1. p. 379. 73. Whit. V. 1. p. 370. 7*. Vol. 1. p. US. 



