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efteem of their own antiquity, and of their appear- 
ance in hiftory before the other parts of Britain were 
at all known. I was not without hopes of, finding 
old towns and cattles, perh ips infer iptions, and works 
of grandeur. But there is nothing of this kind ; the 
inhabitants are all new comers; not an old habitation 
worth notice; nor any remains of Phenician, Grecian, 
or Roman art, either in town, cattle, poit, temple, 
or fepulchre. 
All the antiquities here to be feen are of the rudeft 
Druid times ; and, if borrow’d in any meafure, from 
thole eafterti traders before- mention'd (fuperftition 
being very catching and infectious) were borrow’d 
from their moll antient and limple rites. 
We are not to think, however, but that Sylley was 
really inhabited, and as frequency reforted to antiently, 
as the old hiftorians relate. All the iflands (feveral of 
which are now without cattle, or inhabitant) by the 
mains of hedges, walls, foundations of many conti- 
guous houles, and a great number of fepulchral bar- 
rows, fhew, that they have been fully cultivated, and 
inhabited. 
That they were inhabited by Britons, is paft all 
doubt, not only from their neighbourhood to Eng- 
land, but from the Druid monuments j feveral rude 
ttone pillars ; Circles of Hones eredl ; Kitt-vaens 
without number; Rock-bafons ; Tolmens; all mo- 
numents common in Cornwall and Wales, and 
equal evidences of the antiquity, religion, and ori- 
ginal of the old inhabitants. They have alfo Bri- 
tifh names for their little iflands, tenements, and creeks. 
How came thefe antient inhabitants then (it may 
be afk’d) to vanifh, fo as that the prefent have no 
pretenfions 
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