( 78 / ) 
.'The Romans well knew, that thofe who were Scran-' 
gers to Civility, could not without great Difficulty be, 
kept in Obedience: As foon therefore as the Coun- 
tries they had conquer’d, were reduced to fome degree, 
of Quiet ; they endeavour’d to make the People in love, 
with their Government, by introducing their Arcs and. 
CuUoms among them : From that inconfiderable Inftance, 
recorded ^ by Plin), we may fee, how ready the Rc-^ 
mans were, to oblige the People under their Power,, 
with any Curiofuy that might entertain their Sences,, 
in order to endear them to the Authority they had o- 
ver them. ( He tells us. Cherries were not known in^ 
Ital'jy till the dSoth Year of Rome^ when L, Lticiillus- 
firft brou^TC them thither from Pontus ; and that in 
Hundred and Twenty Years, they were fo increas’d, 
that not only many other Countries, but Britain alfb^ 
was fupply’d with them; which mufl: have been about. 
Three Years after Claudius himfelfhad been here. The 
ufual Landing kom.Rome being then in the County 
of Kent ; that Fruit without queftion was there firfb 
planted ; and the Soil well agreeing with it, may, be the 
reafon that the bed and greated Quantity of it is. 
yet there to be had.^ 
Agricola, ir^the Second Year of his Lieutenancy hercK 
when in Winter-Quarters, purfu’d the fame Maxims^ 
( which Tacitus terms Sal uberrima Confilia ; and, as. 
it may be inferr’d from an Expreffion of® Cafar 
ducive to the fame End ) to gain the Britons, by ma- 
king them acquainted with the Roman Manners : He 
not only in private perfuaded, but publickly help’d. 
and 
5 Plin. Lib. XV. cap ^ De BelL Gallic. Lib. I. Hcrnm 
*mmum fortijfimi funt Belga : Propterea cjttod a cuHti atcjue humanitai-9 
ProvittcU longijfime abfnnt, mlnimeque ad eos Jidercafores fape commewt^ 
atc^ui ea fi^ 4 . ad effeminandgs animos pertinent, iniperSant.- 
