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encounter the Roman Eagle, and when the Roman 
Fleet had furrounded and created Terror to Cale- 
donia: Nulla ultra Terns-, ac ne mare quidem fe- 
curum imminente clajj'e Romana. — Nunc terminus 
patet : Romani , — Rapt ores Or bis, — avari,—dr ambi- 
tioji, quos non Oriens, non Occidens fatiaverit , — bona 
fortunafque in tributa egerunt ; in annonam frumenta , 
corpora noflra ac mams fylvis dr paludibus emuni- 
endis Berber a inter dr contumelias conterunt j — neque 
funt nobis Arv a, aut Met alia, ant Tortus, quibus exer- 
cendis refer Demur :• — hie 'Dux, dr exercitus ibi, tributa, 
dr metalla , dr catera fervientium poena. — Perhaps 
the Curious have not fufficicntly remarked this beau- 
tiful Speech of Galgacus , where he fo pathetically 
lays before them the Lofs of their Support, the Metals, 
for which the Romans fo eagerly fought, and hazarded 
their Lives, as the expeded Reward. He likewife 
relates the Fear created by the Appearance of the 
Roman Fleet on their Coafts. If we refled again, 
that the Roman Fleet not only failed round Cale- 
donia, but alfo the Dunmonium , when the Ro- 
man Ships went to attack the Silures in Wales', 
and that the Name Dun Mwyn , muft declare the 
Produd of the Country, as Authors did likewife 5 
and that the Second Legion was ftationed at Exeter 
the Capital City ; could the Romans in an unufual 
Manner fit idle, and forget their darling Metals, and 
not penetrate the moft fccret Places ? 
It will be a Digrcflion, but I hope not an imper- 
tinent one, to confute a vulgar Error, that the Ro- 
man Soldiers made the Highways in Britain-, when 
it is plain, that the poor conquered Britains under 
-them, as Maftcrs and Ovcrfccrs, dr inter Derbera dr 
con- 
