to a part of a foreft, which they had fortified 

 with a rampart, and a ditch. 



But Caefar faw the Britifh town only in 

 time of war. Strabo gives us a picture of 

 one in time of peace. " Forefts, fays he, 

 were the only towns in ufe among them, 

 which were formed by cutting down a large 

 circle of wood; and erecting huts within it ? 

 and fheds for cattle."* The fame author, 

 afterwards defcribing a town of this kind, 

 fhews more exactly the mode of fortifying 

 it. It was the practice, he tells us, to inter- 

 mix, and weave together, the branches of 

 thorny trees, and ftrengthen them with flakes. 

 As the arts of civilization increafed, man 

 began to feel, that the foreft could not afford 

 him the conveniences he wifhed. Wants 

 multiplied upon himj which he could not 

 indulge amidft it's recefles. He chofe open 

 fituations for tillage the neighbourhood of 

 rivers for mills, and manufactures and de- 

 fcended to the fea-coaft for commerce, which 

 he extended to the moft diftant parts. 



*Lib.vii. p. 292, edit. Cafaub. 



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