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Fortifications, Towns, Cities, Encampments, and the 
like, is without any Certainty. Indeed a learned, and 
no lefs laborious Author, [ S amines’ s Britan.~\ has 
endeavoured to derive the Names of Places, Cuftoms, 
Religion, Art of War, Language and Government 
of the antient Britains from the Phoenicians being 
fettled here 5 and this only upon a fuppofed Affinity 
between fome Britifh and Phoenician Words, and 
their Trade for Tin : But by tfie fame way of Rea- 
foning, we might as well and ealily prove, that the 
Phoenicians received thefe very Words from the De- 
pendents of Gomer , the Celt#, before they palled 
over the Hellefpont ; and alfo that the Brittfh or 
Celtic Words, which occur in the Grecian and Ro- 
man Languages, are derived and owe their Origin to 
the fame People as they journeyed Weftwards, and 
fent Colonies to different Parts to inhabit them, par- 
ticularly the mod South ; the Northern Parts being 
peopled by the Defcendents of Askenez , Gomer’s 
Son : Hence the Teutonic Language flows, though 
not without fome Affinity to the Celtic in few 
Words. 
Romans. 
That the Romans conquered great Part of Britain , 
is not difputed ; but whether they poflefied the mod 
Weftcrn Part, now Cornwall , many Learned doubt. 
Let us enumerate the chief Arguments and Proofs 
for it : The Geography and Figure of Britain is 
delivered in various Grecian and Roman Authors, 
and the mod Weftcrn Part is not forgot. Cafar y the 
firft Roman Invader, mentions the triangular Form 
of the Ifland, [ Comment . Lib • v.] Infula eft tri- 
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