Retrospect.of Domestic 
Gough, Esq. 1s perhaps the most per- 
fect series of topographical science ever 
formed, and is particularly rich in to- 
pographical manuscripts, prints, draw- 
ings, and books iilustrated by the 
manuscript notes of eminent anti- 
quaries.”” \ 
Among the more beautiful of the 
embellishments we cannot forbear 
noticing the view of Oxford prefixed 
to the first volume, with the engrav- - 
ings. of Oriel, College, Lincoln, All- 
Souls, the old Gate Magdalen College, 
Brase Nose, Corpus Christi, Christ 
Church Cathedral, Hall, and Hall 
Stair-Case, Hertford Collere Chapel, 
and Radcliffe’s Library, and St. Mary’s 
Church. 
Another work to which the com- 
mendation of the reader cannot be re- 
fused is the * Trip to Coatham, 
@ Watering Place in the North Extre- 
mily of Yorkshire,’? by W. Hurvon, 
F.A.S. a veleran antiquary,now at 
the age of eighty-five. The route is 
from Alfreton, by Barnsly, Wakefield, 
Leeds, Harewood, Ripley, Ripon, 
Northallerton and Stokesley; and is en- 
liyened by numerous episodes. Coa- 
tham, we find, though not supplied 
with all the amusements which are 
found at watering places nearer the 
metropolis, has still its * little modern 
circulating library,’ and expects to 
advance in these refinements with the 
credit of the spot. The volume is ac- 
companied by a portrait of the author, 
amap of Cleveland, and three other 
engravings. 
' But the most splendid of all the 
works which have appeared is ‘* The 
History of Ancient $V iltshire,” by Sir 
Ricwarp Corr Hoar, Bart. Part I. 
itis somewhat singular, Sir Richard 
Hoare observes, that amongst our nu- 
merous writers on the subject of En- 
glish topography, no one should have 
employed his pen in the description of 
Wiltshire; and that a county so abun- 
dant in British and Roman antiquities, ° 
and so interesting ina more modern 
point of view,should have been so very 
imperfectly dlustrated : for ifwe except 
the writings of Dr. Siukely and others 
on our cclebrated temples at Abury 
and Stonehenge, nothing important 
has been added to the ample store of 
county history which cur topographi- 
cal libraries have collected. 
Sir Richard Hoare’s present re- 
searches commence with the earliest 
period of British history, and are io 
Literature —Antiquities. 
667. 
terminate with the Roman era, In 
his arrangement he divides the county 
of Wiltsinto different stations, from 
which as from head quarters he makes 
as many digressions as distance and 
time will allow of for one day; and ia 
naming them he anglicizes a Latin 
word andecallsthem ters: The fol- 
lowing is thelist of stations proposed. 
1. Stourton. 2. Warminster. 3. Hey- 
tesbury. 4. Wily. 5. Amesbury. 6. 
Everly. 7. Salisbury. 8. Fovant. 
9. Hendon. Of these the first three, 
only, are comprised in the present 
part. 
In an introduction which follows 
the preface, Sir Richard Hoare makes 
some general observations on the early. 
population of the western parts of . 
Kurope. Heconcludesthem with re- 
marking that at the period when Julius 
Cesar wrote his Commentaries Gaul 
was divided into three parts, of which 
the Belge inhabited one, the Aqui- 
tani another, and a people called in 
their own language Ce/fe, and in ours 
Gail’, the third. The Celte were se- 
parated fromthe Aquitani by the river, 
Garonne, and from the Belge by the 
Marne and Seine. These all! differed 
from each other in their language, 
customs and laws. “ But in the time 
of the Greek historian Polybius who 
was born a. century before Cesar, the 
country near Narbonne, which was 
afterwards included within the limits of 
Aguitania, was inhabited by Celtz, 
© Narboni vicina Celte habilant, et inde. 
ad montes quos dicunt Pyreneos. Thus 
we see the province of Agquitania ing 
habited by Celtic tribes, scarcely more 
than a century before the time when 
Cesar allots it to the Aquitani.’’ 
The population of Britain in ifs | 
origin, Sir Richard Hoare, of course, 
ascribes to the neighbouring continent 
of Gaul. He enters pretty minutely 
into the history, as far as it is authen- 
tically detailed of the Cassiterides, or 
Scilly Islands, and affords abundant 
proof that a very exteusive commerce 
was carried on with them first by the 
Phenicians, secondly by the Romans, 
and thirdly by the inhabitants of Gaul. 
With respeci to the precise era of 
the first colonization of Britain, Sir 
Richard Hoare acknowledges we have 
no certain data. Richard of Cirences- 
ter indeed places if about the year 
of the world 3000, and adds that the 
Relew arrived in the year 3650; but 
Casar’s is the first testimony which 
places 
