The HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND. 23 



themfelves againft an enemy *. They were £0 fpacious as to 

 afford fecurity, both to the inhabitants themfelves and to their 

 cattle. " Urbium loco ipfis funt nemora. Arboribus enim 

 " dejeclis ubi amplum circulum fepierunt, ibi cafas ibidem fibi 

 " ponunt, et pecori flabula condunt, ad ufum quidem non 

 " longi temporis." Strabo Geogr. lib. 4. f . Of this nature 

 were all the Britifh towns in the fouthern part of the ifland at 

 the time of Cjesar. Such was the town of Cafftbelanus, pro- 

 bably a place of the greateft confideration in the ifland, as be- 

 ing the refidence of that chief under whom the whole of the 

 fouthern Britons agreed to unite their forces to oppofe the Ro- 

 mans at their fecond defcent upon the coafts. " Ab his cog- 

 " nofcit non longe ex loco oppidum CafTibelani abeffe, hTvis pa- 

 " ludibufque munitum, quo fatis magnus hominum pecorif- 

 " que numerus convenerit." Cjes. de Bello Gal. lib. 5. cap. 21. 

 This oppidum CafTibelani was Verulamium, the prefent St Al- 

 bans. (See Camden, and Horsley's Britannia Romana.') Lon- 

 don, or the capital of the Trinobantes, was then a place of in- 

 ferior note to Verulam. The Romans dignified the latter with 

 the title of a municipium, while the former was fimply an oppi- 

 dum ', and therefore flrictly correfpondent to Caesar's general 

 defcription ; a portion of a thick wood furrounded with a ditch 

 and rampart. 



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* The pi&ure given by Tacitus of the manner of life of the Germanic tribes, may 

 probably be applied, with very little difference, to all the contemporary barbarous na- 

 tions of Europe : " Nullas Germanorum populis urbes habitari fatis notum eft, ne pati 

 " quidem inter fe junc"tas fedes. Colunt difcreti ac diverfi, ut fons, ut campus, ut ne- 

 " mus placuit. Vicos locant non in noftrum morem, connexis et cohaerentibus aedificiis : 

 " fuam quifque domum fpatio circumdat, five adverfus cafus ignis remedium, five in- 

 " fcitia sedificandi. Ne csementorum quidem apudillos, aut tegulorum ufus." Tacit. 

 de Mor. Germ. cap. 16. 



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