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with them, after their Dependents had peopled the 
mod Wedern and Northern Parts of Europe : Hence 
it is eafily traced in Greece , Latum , Iberia , GalLa , 
and Britannia , as well as Germany , Sweden., Norway , 
Denmark , till Chriftianity appeared, and abolifhed it. 
Let us next conlidcr what Nation or People inha- 
bited, or were acquainted with, the mod Wedern Part 
of Britain. 
Celt / a . 
That the Celt re and Britains inhabited here, need 
not be proved; though, perhaps, I may hereafter 
trace their Relics or Remains of Druidifm in 
Carnedsy Cromleches , Meini Gwyrs, Fortifications, 
and the like. 
Phoenicians and Grecians. 
That the Phoenicians fird, and after them the 
Grecians , knew thefe Iflands, and traded here for 
Tin, long before the Romans Knowledge of them, is 
plain, and eafily proved by Grecian and Roman Au- 
thors, as Strabo , Polybius , Pliny , &c. Polybius wrote 
a Book, negi t B^erlccnx.oov Ntiow, xj t» KocoslUga 
Kalaent^Jis. Which Book, though now lod, yet 
Strabo witneffeth, that therein he refuted the Errors 
of Dicaarchus , Pythias , and Eratojlhenes , concern- 
ing the Magnitude of Britain , Authors much older 
than himfelt. And though Difputes may arife, whether 
the Bratanac of the Phoenicians gave Name to thefe 
Iflands, yet it is certain, that the Greeks knew them 
under the Title of CaJJiterideSy the Tin-Iflands. 
But whether thefe Nations were ever fettled here 
as Inhabitants, and became Bodies Politic, to ere& 
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