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cumftances well enough agree with the Account given 
us of Anderida, 
The Situation likewifc of a Town here, gives reafon 
enough to fuppofe, it was a Place of Importance, and 
whence it had its Name 5 no Part hereabouts being any 
way fo convenient, for a f'ecure Settlement ; or for fuch 
a ufe as the Romans might have occafion to make of it. 
We are inform’d by Cafar, that the Maritime Parts of 
Britain (fpeaking of what he faw, which was the South- 
Eaft ) were inhabited by People from Belgium ; and ' 
that they call’d their Settlements by the Name of the 
Places from whence they came. It was the Opinion of 
Tacitus alfo, that ^ thofe who inhabited next to Gaule, 
came from Gaule. And Bede fays, the Tradition in his 
Time was, that the Southern Part of the Ifle was peo- 
pled * from Bretaign. In the Third and Seventh Books 
of Cafar’s Commentaries, mention is made of the Andes, 
a City and a People belonging to it among the Celta, in- 
habiting on the Sea-Coaft. Time varying the Names of 
Things, near Two Hundred Years after Cafar, Ftolomj 
calls the City Anderidum : And near 250 Years after him, 
when the Notitia Imperii, now extant, was in ufe, the 
Clajfis Anderetianorum '* is regifter d ; and the Refidence 
of their Admiral fix’d at Paris. From whence ’tis to be 
inferr’d, that tho’ the Capital of the Andes might have 
been Angers near the Loyre, yet their Country had on the 
North the Britifh Channel ; and on the Eaft the Seine for 
its Bounds. The Britijh Coaft about Eafi Bourne is the 
neareft of any to the Mouth of the Seine ; Therefore, 
according 
* De Bell. Gal. Lib. V. omnes, fere its nominibus civitatum appel.. 
lantur, quibus orti ex civitatibHS eo pervenerunt. ’ Tac. Agric. cap. xi. 
la univerfum tamen xftinianti^ Gallos vicinum folum occupaffe credibile efi. 
5 Bedoe Hift. Ecclef. Gent Angl. Lib. I. cap. I. In primis hac Infula 
^ritones folum^ d quibus nomen accepit, incolaj habuit ; qui de traHu Armo.. 
vicano ( ut fertur ) Britanniam adveBi Aujlrales flbi partes illius vindi^ 
0UTUH4. J Pancirol, Comm, ia Notit. Imp. Cap. XC. pag. i yp, i8o. 
