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Now the very form of these triads is sufficient to prove 
that they are unworthy of admission into the canon of 
real history. But this much is certain, that at the time of 
the Roman invasion, the whole eastern part of the island 
was inhabited by a people whose language and manners, in 
some degree, differed from those of the aborigines, who 
had retired to the interior and the western coast, and that 
.the greater part of Somersetshire was at that time in the 
possession of the Belge—probably a tribe of the Coranied 
— who came from the land of the Pwyl, who had conquered 
it from the Hzdui, Cangi, and Danmonii, perhaps not very 
long before the time of Cxsar; or, as Mr. Guest sup- 
poses, the men of Galedin, who had repaid the hospitality 
of the Cymry by taking from them a considerable part 
of their territory. Now the learned Davis, whose work I 
have been quoting, supposes that pure Druidism retired, 
with its original professors, before the invadıng tribes ; 
and he is certainly in some degree borne out by the fact of 
druidical remains being far more common in the western 
distriets, such as Wales, Cornwall, and Cumberland, than 
in the eastern counties; and also by the fact that the great 
establishment of Druids, in the time of Agricola, was not 
at their great temples at Stonehenge and Abury, which 
were then either in the hands of the Belg®, or close to 
their border, but in the Island of Mona, the extreme 
western point of North Wales. Now there are many 
druidical remains in different parts of Mendip; and Iam 
informed that there is one at no great distance from 
this place. The same author supposes that the Hxdui, 
who certainly were settled in this country before the 
Belg®, were a tribe of the Loegrys ; and if so, it is pro- 
bable that these druidical monuments are of more ancient 
date than the Belgic invasion ; and from the peculiarity of 
