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Story mare at lajrge. It is certain that this 

 Expedition of dtfars^ was in the Year of th^ 

 Confulate of Pompey and Craffus^ which was iii 

 the Year of Rome 699. or the 55^/? before 

 the ufual jEra of Chrift : And as to the time 

 of the Year, Cafar fays that Exigua parte afia-- 

 tis reliqua^ he came over only with two Le* 

 gions, viz.. the 7^/7 and loth and all Foot, in 

 about 80 Sail of Merchant Ships, 18 Sail 

 that were ordered to carry the Horfe not 

 being able to get out at the fame time from 

 another Port, where they lay Wind-bound. 

 He fays that he arrived about the 4th hour of 

 the Day, viz.. between Nine and Ten in the 

 Morning, on the Coaft of Britain^ where he 

 found theEnemy drawn up on the CUfs ready 

 tOh repel him,' which place he thus defcribes* 

 Loci h(3dc erat natura^ ad&o montibus augufiis mn^ 

 ri? continebatnr ut ex lock Juperioribm in littm 

 telum adjicit pojfit^ by which the C//^ of Dover 

 and the South Foreland are juftly defa*ibed^ 

 and could be no other Land, being he fays ia 

 the Book of his Commentaries, in Brit an^ 

 niam traje^tum ejje cognoverit circitur milUum 

 faffum triginta a continentij the Cliffs of the 

 North^Foreland being at a much greater dift* 

 ance. Here he fays he came to an An- 

 chor, and ftaid till the 9th houi^, or till about 

 between Three and Four in the Afternoon^ 

 expeding till his whole Fleet was come up 

 and in the mean time called a Council of 

 War, and advertifed his Officers, after what 

 manner they were to make their Defcent, 

 particularly in relation to the SufF of the 

 Sea, whpfe motion he calls cekrem atq^ infiabi^ 

 Um^ quick and uneven. Then, vtz^. about 



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