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Account of some Antiques, Fe. 529 
Greek or Roman coin; neither are they to be 
found amongst those models of armour and 
Weapons upon the Trajan or Antonine pillars 
at Rome; nor do any of the writers upon the 
Roman military art mention or describe any 
offensive weapons of this sort; and therefore 
when any have been found in undoubted Ro- 
man stations, and accompanied even with Ro- 
man coins, &c. we are obliged to suppose either 
that they came thither by chance as the spoils of 
some British or Celtic enemy, or that they were 
the arms or tools of barbarian auxiliaries, Sir 
James Ware observes, «It is past controversy the 
arms of the ancient Irish were made of brass, 
and likewise those of the ancient Greeks, Ger- 
mans and Britains.” Some again have thought, 
and with great probability, that they were intro- 
duced into this island by the Phoenician mer- 
chants of Tyre and Sidon, who had in return 
British tin, Whoever were the people that used 
them, I am inclined to believe that some of the 
tribes of the Indians in’ North America were 
their descendants, from the agreement observable 
between the ancient Celt and the modern Toma- 
hawk, both in size and shape; and this last is 
used both fora weapon and for domestic pur- 
poses. © ; 
Nearly all these celts have or have had loops 
at the sides, beyond all doubt to tie them to 4 
