5 6z ANTIQUITIES OP NORTHUMBERLAND. 



liberal arts, and all the graceful refinements that felicitate foci- 

 ety : A people, who of great conquerors became, as it were, our 

 fervants, to teach us how to live, like fociable and reafonable 

 beings, to refcue us from the bondage of favage ignorance, to 

 polifh our manners, and to learn us by that beft of lefTons, their 

 own example, both how to poilefs a country, and how to adorn 

 it 



So fenfible were the inhabitants of Britain of the benefits de- 

 rived from that great and renowned people, in the courfe of 

 500 years, that they nothing fo much lamented as the departure 

 of the Roman Eagle : whofe grief and fixation is beautifully ex- 

 prefled in a fine feal found at FlodJon-field, by the riyer Till, re- 

 prefenting Britannia half naked, fitting upon rocks, and leaning 

 alfo upon them with her right hand, taking hold with her left 

 of the wing of an eagle, which has one foot upon the rocks, and 

 the other on Britannia's, knee, where {he is cloathed (q)*. It came 

 kuo the pofTcffion of the late Countefs Caivper (r). 



(,p) Haec eft in gremium vik>a qua: fola recepit, 

 Humanumqiie genus communi nomine fovit, 

 Matris, non dominse, ritu, civefque vocavit 

 Quos domuit, nexuque pio longinqua revinxit, Clfiud, Paneg. iii. in 



(q) See Gordons plate of medals in It in. Sept. fig. r, 

 r) Horf. Brit. Ram. p, j^ 



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