136 Mr. plant a’s Account of 
Roman arms; but only repelled in their attempts to 
harrafs their neighbours. 
This whole country, however, from its central fitua- 
tion, could not but be annumerated to one of the pro- 
vinces of the empire; and accordingly we find that 
Rhaetia itfelf (which by the accounts of ancient geognir 
phers (*) appears to have extended its limits beyond the 
lake of Conftance, Augfburg, and Trent, towards Ger- 
many, and to Como and Verona towards Italy) was 
formed into a Roman province, governed by a pro-conful 
or procurator, who refided at Augfburg; and that when 
in the year 119, the Emperor Adrian divided it into 
Rhaetia prstna and fecunda , the governor of the for- 
mer, in which the country I am now fpeaking of muft 
have been comprized, took up his refidence in two 
caftles fituated where Coire now hands, whilft the other 
continued his feat at Augfburg. But notwithftanding 
thefe appearances, no trace or monument of Roman ler- 
vitude is to be met with in this diftrivff, except the ambi- 
guous name of one mountain (y), fituated on the fkirts of 
thefe highlands, and generally thought to have been the 
non plus ultra of the Roman arms on the Italian fide. 
From the difficulty thofe perfevering veterans expe- 
rienced in keeping this ftubborn people in awe, I mean 
to infer that fuch flrenuous affertors of their indepen- 
dence, whom the flattering pens of ovid and Horace 
reprefent as formidable even to Augustus, and prefer- 
(x) strabo, lib. IV. fub fin. clover, Ital. vet. lib. I. c. 16. 
(y) Julius Mens, scheuciizer Iter. Alp. p. 1 14, 
