8 SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
was the habitation of the Silures; whilst below us extends 
the Gwlad-yr-hav, the ‘ summer-fields ’ of the Celtic poets, 
which, with the heights of the Quantock and the northern 
coast of Somerset, was the residence of the western Cangi. 
“] am well aware that my learned friend and colleague, 
Mr. Jones, will tell you that the “summer-field’ is a false 
translation of the Celtic name, and that Gwlad-yr-havren 
simply signifies “the land on the coast of the Severn;’ and 
it would, indeed, be presumptuous in me to doubt the 
correctness of his interpretation; but when I look down on 
that beautiful plain, I hope to be excused if (for the day at 
least), I hold the more poetical translation to be the right 
one, and believe with Harne, that the Cangi named their 
beautiful vale and plain “the laughing summer-field.’ 
“Far again to the south-east extend the grassy hills 
and undulating downs of Dorset and Wilts, for centuries 
the battle-field of the Belg&, those men of Galedin, who, 
having been received by the British tribes in peace, repaid 
their hospitality by wresting from them a large portion of 
their most valuable territory. Several of the mountain 
strongholds of these early nations are in sight—W’orle Hill, 
Hamdon, Neroche, Elworthy, and Dowsborough are all 
crowned with military works of these extinct nations, all 
of whom were soon to fall under the irresistible power of 
the Roman armies. 
“About the year 40, Ostorius Scapula took military 
possession of the coast from the mouth of the Avon to the 
zstuary of the Uxella, and having crossed the z»stuary, 
probably completed the conquest of the Cangi, on the very 
spot on which we are now standing. I know that this is 
controverted, and that many historians and archxologists 
hold that the battle, which was fought within sight of the 
‘Mare quod aspicit Hiberniam,’ was fought against the 
