134 A. D. 14. 



From this enumeration of the exports and imports of the Britons, 

 and from the notices to be found in antient authors, it appears, that, 

 beiides pafturage and agriculture, they underflood the arts of extracfting 

 tin and lead, and even gold, lilver, and iron, from their mines *, the 

 manufadure of glafs and amber, and alio fome works merely orna- 

 mental. For their own ufe they had manufadures of arms, the objedl 

 of the firfl attention to every warlike people, and which were by no 

 means fo contemptible, as fome modern writers have reprefented them. 

 Beiides carts for carrying their tin and other heavy burthens, they had 

 chariots f , fometimes armed with fchythes for mowing down the enemy, 

 which were ufed in battle, from the coaft of Kent in the louth to the 

 Gram.pian mountain in the north. \Ccef. Bell. Gall. L. iv, c. 2,2,- — 'Tac. 

 Vit. Agric. cc. 12, 35.] Their chief drink was ale, which they made 

 from barley and fometimes from wheat. [Diofcorides, L. ii, c. yS.] They 

 had a manufadure of fome kind of drapery, as appears from Caefar's 

 obfervation, that the diftant and lefs civilized Britons were clothed in 

 fkins, which proves, that the nearer and more civilized Britons had 

 clothing of a better and more comfortable kind ; and that could fcarce- 

 ly be any other than woollen cloth, which in its improved flate has 

 long been the great and favourite ftaple manufadure of England \. 



The Britiih goods, deftined for Rome or any part of the Mediterra- 

 nean coafls, after their arrival in Gaul were put into river-craft and 

 conveyed to Narbo and Maffilia by the inland navigation, which I have 

 already defcribed, chiefly on account of its great connedion with the 



* Mr. Whitaker fuppofcs, that coal was ufed ufeful animals, becaufe no antient author has men- 

 as fuel by the Britons before the arrival of the tioned them. \^Biiti/h %oolngy, V. i, />. 23, ec^. 

 Romans: and Mr. Pennant fays, that a flint axe, 1768.] But againil this negative argument may 

 an inllrument of the aboriginal Biitons, was found we not fet the queftion, What author has men- 

 flicking in a vein of coal, expofed to day, at tioned thejir/l importation of them ? Is it not rea- 

 Craig-) -park in Monmouth-fliirc. But it does not fonable to fuppofe, that, if the primitive or in- 

 clearly appear, tliat the coal was ufed as fuel, land Britons were dcilitute of fheep, they would 

 Nor can the coal cinders, found among the ruins be imported along with the Belgic colonies ? Nay, 

 of the Roman llation at Caervorran in Northum- it is mod probable, that even among the inland 

 berland, be admitted as a proof, that the Romans inhabitants flicep were a part of the animals, on 

 ufed coal for fuel. '1 hat town may have had the flefh and milk of which they fubfilled, as we 

 many revolutions unnoted in liillory j and many arc told by Casfar, who exprefsly mentions flocks 

 fires of coal may liave been in houfes tiow buried '(' pecoiis') in CalTivcUaun's (or CafTibelin's) town: 

 in ruins, though built many ceniuiics after the de- \_BeU. Gall. 1,. v, c 11] and ^»5x>i^«T« (a word 

 parture of tlie Romans. \_See Whitaker'' s Hifl. of including flocks and herds, and apparently rather 

 Manchcjlir, p. .^02. — Pennant's Tour in IVales, p. appropriated to the former) are repeatedly men- 

 Ifj. — IVai'tis's Ni/l. of Nort/jumlier/antl, f^.i, p. lic). tioned by Strabo in his defcription of Britain. 

 — a/fm ^rnol's hifl. of Ei:inlurgh, p. 82. j The But no antient author mentions woollen cloths 

 fuppofed notice of coal in the year 852 will be among the articles im/i«r/(v/ »n/o Britain. Befide?, 

 confidered in its proper lime. the panegyric upon Conflaiitius exprefsly mentions 



•j" tjncli war-chariots were ufed by the Par- flocks loaded with wool (' pecora onulla velleri- 



thians, and by the Perfiana in the time of Alex- ' bus') as natives of Britain : and the Britifli 



ander the Great, and alio in the time of Alexan- names of the animal, as given by Mr. Pennant, 



der Severus emperor of Rome. have no rcfemblancc to the Latin, to warrant even 



X I liave I'vrc prefumed, that at lead the more a fufpicion, that tlicy were introduced by the Ro- 



poliflied Biitons had Iheep ; though llic great na- mans, 

 turalift, Mr. Pennant, thinks they had not thofe 



