c 39* ) 
Tnth^rf Mal^e with thofe we find 
thhn ! 1 reprefent to us 
the Mdiuphflnimentsof the old Roma»s, Grech &c 
But had tl,^. been of^ feme Refembh.ce, yet Sot fee 
hat thoie F,guret in Speed are of any Authority. For tho’ 
^ou guefs that they were copied from old MSS vet I 
t>/h htfiory that have any fuch Figures, If ever anv 
one had them, we have reafon to prefume that other plnL 
upon the fame SubjeH would have retain'd them • at leafl: 
i tiat IS the Method obierv’d in other Sorts of MSS The 
f“pa«s o^tf 
metitaL i arts or the Great Letters • but whpn onrr F* 
Were to be depiSed that Ihould illuftrate and explain Xe 
Author, there they were to be exaS and punHud, and they 
a no more Allowance to alter them than they had to 
alter ^ni sufe-poUte the Text of the Author himfelf. Hen« 
I am inclind to think that thefe Figure, atemoderu and 
are omwg to Mr. Speed himfelf; Tis alfo what himfelf 
infinuates m the fame Chapter, acknowleaeine that thev 
were adapted to the Deferipthn, given of the Britain, in 
amseut Autheut.ck, Author,. But not to examine other Par. 
Uculars, the Form of the Spear, in their Hands is not 
ountenanc d by any Authority of Note. For tho' Hero, 
dtan has acquainted us that they ufed fiort Spear, yet he 
is filent as to the Make of them. Nor indeed have we 
any where a good Account of the Military Arm, of the 
Britain,. The Author, tranfmitted to Pojierity by them 
are modern m comparifon of the RomaJ Writer! and 
are vvitha! Romantick and not to be rely’d on. And as 
" ’®y fo tranfmit to Po- 
fterity thefe Weapons, _ or to give us Relation, of 
their Countrymen. Tis true, there have been and are ftill 
found feveral Injlrument, made of Flint, which the beft 
Judge, efteem to be Britifi. The Flint Head, of their 
Arrow, are commonly called in Scotland Elf-Arrows, as 
being 
