510 Rev. Mr Williams on one Source of the 



of the interior parts and of the western coast. Their character 

 and their habits were different from those of the other Britons, 

 with whom Cesar fought. We are not apprised, and have no 

 reason to conjecture, that he saw the interior inhabitants. The 

 armies that opposed him were similar, in their general habits, in 

 their military art and resources, to each other, as they were also 

 to the Belgae of Kent. 



The monuments we call Druidical must be appropriated ex- 

 clusively to Aborigines of the midland and western divisions. 

 They are found in such corners and fortresses as have, in all ages 

 and countries, been the last retreat of the conquered. In Wales 

 and in Mona they were used and venerated until the aborigines 

 were completely subjugated by Roman arms. In the central 

 counties, and in the west, they perpetually occur, from Cornwall 

 to Cumberland, whereas few traces of them are discovered in the 

 eastern part of the island, which therefore appears to have been 

 occupied by those people who did not construct buildings of this 

 nature, and who obtained possession before the aborigines deeply 

 impressed their character upon the soil." 



Of the race of the " Veteres Galli," were also the iEdui and 

 Arverni. Both these nations claimed the sovereignty of all Gaul, 

 and seem to have been regarded as the natural chiefs 1 of the 

 central tribes. The iEdui seem to have derived their name 

 from As5 the Great, 2 the father of Prudain, one of the three 

 pillars of the race of the Cumri. Nor is it improbable, that 

 Caesar's notion " that all the Gauls held that they sprang from 

 Father Dis, and that this was taught by the Druids," originated 

 in a mistake, which led him to confound the Greek 'A^ng with 

 the Cumbrian As£ the Great. 3 It is, moreover, difficult, without 



1 Quod summa auctoritas antiquitus erat in iEduis. — Caesar. Lib. i. 43, Ut 

 omni tempore totius Gallia? principatum iEdui tenuissent. 



2 Triad 2 and 34, &c. 



3 Galli se omnes ab Dite patre prognatos praedicant, idque ab Druidibus prodi- 

 tum dicunt. — Caesar, Lib. vi. cap. 17. 



