422 MifcelUnea Cur to fa. Vol. III. 



A "DISCOURSE tending to 

 frove at 'what Time and Place, 

 Julius Cefar made his firjl De* 

 fcent Ufon Britain : Kead be* 

 fore the Royal Society by E. 

 Halley. 



T}lo\xgh Chronolopcal and Hiftorical Mat-» 

 ters, may not feem fo properly the Sub-» 

 |ect of thefe Trads, yet there having, in one 

 of the late Meetings of the Royal Society^ 

 beqn fome Difcourfe about the Place where 

 Julim Cefar Landed in Britain^ and it having 

 been required of me to fliew the Reafbn why 

 1 concluded it to have been in the Downs \ in 

 doing thereof, I have had the good Fortune 

 fo far topleafethofe worthy Patrons of Learn- 

 ing I have the Honour to ferve, that they 

 thought fit to command it to be inferted in 

 th^ Philofophical TranfaElions^ as an inftance of 

 the great Ufe of Afironomkal Commutation far 

 fixing and afcertaining the Times of memor 

 rable Aftions, when omitted or not duly 

 delivered by the Hiftorian, 



!• The Authors that mention this Expedi^ 

 tion with any Circumftances, are C^far in his 

 Commentaries lib, 4, and Vion Cajfias in lib. 395, 

 Livy\ account being loft, in whofe io$th^ 

 ^ook might poffibly havf been found th^ 



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