but slightly in manners and customs from those of the opposite 
continent, whence they had come over (as Caesar tells us) ; 
it therefore necessarily follows that the arms of the Britons, 
offensive and defensive, were the same as those used by the 
Gauls. 
Another point in favour of Britannia’s claim to the appropria¬ 
tion of this statue, in addition to the feminine face and head 
which it appears to exhibit, may be found in the fulness of the 
chest and the very peculiar (and perhaps significant) ornamenta¬ 
tion of the cuirass, which might seem to indicate the existence of 
female forms beneath their covering. This last observation, 
however, may be objected to—for it cannot be denied that the 
slenderness or compactness given to the human figure depends 
more upon the period of art than upon the actual proportions of 
the model. Nothing stronger than the above-stated arguments 
can be advanced in support of Britannia’s claims to this 
personification; and notvdthstanding one’s natui'al anxiety 
that she may gain her suit, and the proverb, “ Male verum 
examinat omnis corruptm judex it must be confessed they are 
of no great weight when the arguments on the other side come 
to be carefully examined. 
The base, above mentioned, proves, it is true, that the 
tutelary genius of our island was embodied in a visible form, 
and like Dea Roma, or the of Antioch, received divine 
honours from the civilised natives, but numerous memorials of 
the period too clearly declare that the form under which she 
was worshipped differed in every respect from the one before 
us. Our authorities for the personification of Britannia are 
the coins of Antoninus Pius (apparently from their rude make 
struck in the island), of Hadrian, and, a century after him, of 
Carausius. The first depicts her as a figure in profile, seated on 
rocks, holding a military ensign in the right hand, and resting 
the left, which supports a spear, upon the edge of the great 
Gallic shield. The second, more artistic in design, exhibits her 
similarly seated, but in front face, resting her head pensively 
on her right hand, and the left armed as before, upon the same 
shield, but of even larger relative proportions, and with a long 
spike projecting from the imho. In neither case does she wear 
