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Country d,^\Gaul for gone that was fo much lef/. It is 
therefore more likely that the Britain had their imme- 
diate ^Original from the Gauls, Ctefar himfelf thought 
fo as to thofe that inhabited more near the Coajis^ 
notwithhanding his ObfervaHon that the Midland Peo- 
ple were Aborigines, Nor will Boxhorn's AJJertion that 
the Gallick Tongue was the fame with the^Scphian over- 
throw this Eypothejts, For it may very well be fuppo- 
fed that the Gauls came fir ft from the Scythians^ who 
are in Juflin (b) obferv’d to have been the moft an- 
tknt People, and to have contended with the Mgyp- 
tians on that . This will exaHly agree with 
what Camden and others have averted concerning 
the Gauls being defeended from Qomer^ the eldefl Son 
of Japhet, I know indeed that Mr. Sammes derives 
the Scythians from Magog the fecond Son of Japhet, 
But (not here to take notice of his contradiding hini- 
felf in this Point) fince Strabo (/) and Stephanus (h) 
mention a City call’d Gogarena between Colchis and 
Iberia, and fince the City Hierapolis in Celo-Syria, ac- 
cording to Pliny (•/), wasc^Jl’d by the Syrians MAGOG, 
'tls more probable that Magog feated himfelf in thofe 
Countries, near to which ’ris agreed his Brethren fet- 
tied, than that he wandred fo far out of the Way 
from them. Here. I cannot but take notice that the 
Britains were like the Scythians a frugal People, and 
their long Lives (they often living to the Age 120 
Tears) might in great meafure be aferib’d to their 
Temperance, and their Milk Dyet, f juft like the Hippo- 
molg’s mentioned by Homer {rn). And as lEfchjlus 
tells us that the Scythians were Hornpa cdnixoi, 
a jufi Nation and addi&ed to the Feeding of Horfes, 
{h)Vn[\ lih.\f c u a) \De Vrhih. [ms. 
(/) Nat. Hui hb, V. 23. (m) II. XIII. v.2. ' ^ 
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