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reclaimed from the foreft ; fome for focial 

 afiiftance ; and others for a lefs precarious 

 fupply of food ; while the fhaggy tenants of 

 the foreft, which were hoftile to his plans, 

 began every where to give way; prowling 

 only by night; and fkulking by day in fuch 

 deep recefles, as might beft fecure them from 

 the formidable affociation, which had taken 

 place. 



But ftill his native foreft was his delight. 

 Here, in fome opening furrounded with woods, 

 the hord firft fettled. Here the firft attempts 

 of architecture were made : the krail was laid 

 out by rule, and line; and the firft draughts 

 of regular defence were imagined. Caefar, 

 with all his boafted conqueft, found the 

 Gauls, the Britons, and the Germans fcarce 

 emerging from this ft ate of barbarifm. His 

 commentaries every where fhew them to have 

 been foreft-people ; retreating before him into 

 their faftnefles, and impeding his march by 

 felling timber in his way. The Britons, he 

 exprefsly tells us*, gave the name of a town 



* Oppidum Britanni vocant, quum fylvas impeditas vallo, 

 atque folia munierunt. De Bell. Gal. Lib v. 



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