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Gessoriacum, when they choose, contrary to every authority 
worth speaking of, to transfer its site from the vicinity of 
the Rhine and Scheldt to Boulogne ! It is so hard to root 
up and overturn a fixed prejudice, it is such uphill work to 
argue against " everybody says so!" It is so difficult to 
" educate " the party of progress in Archaaology, so few care 
to seek truth for itself, and to follow it out regardless of 
consequences and what Mrs. Grundy may say ! 
Now that Claudius' short campaign was in the north, that 
it was against the Brigantes, that it was their capital he 
took possession of, is clear from the evidence of history. 
Claudius and his generals, as well as their successors, ever 
found that the Brigantes were foremost to rebel, and bore 
with impatience the yoke of servitude. We can have no 
stronger testimony than that of Seneca, who states in 
express words that it was the Brigantes whom Claudius 
conquered. 
" Ille Britannos, 
Litora ponti, 
Scuta Brigantas 
Colla catenis 
Nova Romanes 
Tremere oceanum," <S:c. 
Tacitus tells us that Claudius took Cunobelin's royal city 
Camulodunum. Ptolemy expressly states that this was a 
city of the Brigantes, and places it southernmost on the 
borders of the Parisii. In 1858, Hector Boece's Chroniclis 
of Scotland was edited by the late William Turnbull. He 
was selected, and deservedly, as the fittest person to superin- 
tend the publication of Public Records by the Master of the 
Rolls. This publication he thought of so much value, that 
he edited it himself, and it is important to my subject that 
he, the first authority of the age, in vol. iii., p. 630, places 
" Camulodunum " in Yorkshire, within a few miles of this 
