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affected great numbers of servants, that their buildings were alike, and were 

 surrounded with woods: that they both usually wore chains of gold about their 

 necks, and had rings on their middle fingers ; that both wore long hair, and 

 that the garments called brachae were common to both. These things he con- 

 firms from the best and most approved authors. And as the chief argument, 

 he has alleged variety of instances to show that they spoke the same language. 

 Mr. Sheringham was aware of this, and therefore, to evade the force of the 

 argument, he makes the Trojans to come through Gaul, which being then 

 thinly inhabited, he says Brute and his companions soon conquered it, built a 

 city, and continued there till such time as they had well peopled it ; after 

 which, they passed over into Britain, and by that means the Britons came to 

 have the same language. But this does not seem consistent with the usual 

 prudence, nor with the other wise acts ascribed to Brute. For it is not pro- 

 bable that Brute would voluntarily leave so large a country as Gaul, for one so 

 much less. It is therefore more likely that the Britons had their immediate 

 original from the Gauls. Caesar himself thought so, as to those that inhabited 

 nearer the coasts, notwithstanding his observation that the midland people were 

 Aborigines. Nor will Boxhorn's assertion, that the Gallic tongue was the 

 same with the Scythian, overthrow this hypothesis. For it may very well be 

 supposed, tliat the Gauls came first from the Scythians, who are in Justin 

 observed to have been the most antient people, and to have contended with the 

 Egyptians on that score. This will exactly agree with what Cambden and 

 others have asserted, concerning the Gauls being descended from Gomer, the 

 eldest son of Japhet. I know indeed that Mr. Sammes derives the Scythians 

 from Magog, the second son of Japhet. But (not here to take notice of his 

 contradicting himself in this point) since Strabo and Stephanus mention a city 

 called Gogarena, between Colchis and Iberia ; and since the city Hierapolis in 

 Ccelo-Syria, according to Pliny, was called by the Syrians Magog; it is more 

 probable that Magog seated himself in those countries, nearer to which it is 

 agreed his brethren settled, than that he wandered so far out of the way from 

 them. Here I cannot but notice that the Britons were, like the Scythians, a 

 frugal people, and their long lives, often extended to 120 years, might in great 

 measure be ascribed to their temperance, and their milk diet, just like the 

 Hippomolgs, mentioned by Homer. And, as jtEschylus tells us, that the 

 Scythians were iTnrmriq |3oT»;p£? o-uvojaoj, a just nation, and addicted to the feeding 

 of horses, so the same may be said of our ancient Britons, who were very 

 religious, and observed the rules of their priests, and took extraordinary delight 

 in cattle ; whence perhaps they might affect to have the figures of beasts cut 

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