1807.] On the Settlement of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain.’ 535 
Tt occupies the land between the river 
and the lake, and the dashing waves of 
the latter were long heard before our 
eyes could poretrate the forest, and dis- 
tinguish its waters. Was I to compare 
the as yet uncultivated shores of Lake 
Erie with any part of the coast of Eng- 
Jand, with which I am acquainted, { 
should say the contour of the country 
most resembles the lands between Cro- 
mer and Mandsley, in Norfolk. The 
same high cragey cliffs, a siliceous sand 
(studded, however, with wild pease), as 
beautiful as the other, the same grand 
water prospect, and waves beating and 
foaming in a manner similar to what I 
have often observed in that neighbour- 
hood. Our first visit to the lake was 
very unfavourable; the rain poured 
down in torrents, our compass would not 
traverse; suddenly night overtook us, 
and we were lost. We travelled near 
four hours before we found the path 
leading to the Ashtabula; our horses 
were jaded, and my friend’s sunk beneath 
his weight. A distant light soon cheered 
our worn-out spirits, and a humble’ cot- 
tage received the weary wanderers. On 
the hearth blazoned the crackling faggot, 
but, alas! one room was ali the house 
contained, and that was already occupied 
by fifteen persons. The kind hostess, 
however, provided us with egvs, bacon, 
chickens, and whisky; after which we 
converted the flannels from under cur 
saddles into pillows, and attempted) to 
sleep. This, however, the novelty of my 
situation, the gnoaring of some of my 
fellow lodgers, the talking of others, add- 
ed to the hollow roarmg of the winds, 
the solemn peal of the thunder, and the 
grunting of the hogs, from which we 
were only separated by a thin partition, 
as well as the oflicious kindness of our 
hostess, preyented my indul¥ing in; and, 
Jest I should force some of your readers 
into a premature nap, 1 shall conclude 
with the customary assurances of the 
esteem and respect of 
Alexandria, 
Jun. 29, 1807. 
See 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ECONCLUSION of the accouNT of ‘the sET- 
TLEMENT of the ANGLO SAXONS in BRI- 
TAIN. Erlracted and translated from 
Daamark’s Historie ved P. I. Suhm. 
N the year 514, Stuf and Vithgar 
(probably the same name as Vikar), 
two Jates, who on this occasion are called 
Counts, perhaps Jarier (or earls), came 
With three ships, and landed at Cerdic- 
R. Diymore, 
sear, where they gave battle to the Bri- 
tons and put them to flight. They were 
Cerdic’s nephews, by a sister: and he 
being a Saxon, no doubt from Dit- 
Inarsh,3s.a proof of the great intercourse, 
friendship, and connection, that subsist. 
ed between the two nations, the Saxons 
and the Jutes. Withear was the most 
warlike of the two brothers, and therefore 
much beloved by Cerdic. The Britons 
had in that battie ranged thejr troops in 
very good order, partly on a mountain, 
partly in a valley. Their shields were 
also finely adorned and gilt: but when 
it came to combat, they were easily de- 
feated. Shortly after, Arthar had suc- 
ceeded to the throne, no doubt while he 
was engaged in the Danish war, a great 
battle took place (A. D. 519) between 
the Britons and Cerdic, with his soa 
Cenric, at Cerdicsford, now Charford, a 
fording place in the river Avon. The 
Britons fought well, and the battle lasted 
till night, when a complete victory was 
gamed by the Saxons, From this time 
is reckoned the beginning of the king- 
dom of Wessex. After Arthur had re- 
turned home, he was engaced in twelve 
battles with the Anelo Saxons; one 
of the:n was fouvht near the river Dou- 
glas, mm Lindsey; another in the Ca- 
ledonian forest, a third on the Badonian 
mountain, im the last of which 840 Sax- 
ons fell. In many of these conflicts Ar- 
thur was engaged with the two brothers, 
Colerin and Baldulph, whom Langhorn, 
ho doubt rightly, supposes to have been 
Cimen and Pleting, the sons of Cella. 
These two, Colgrin and Baldulph, as soon 
as they received intelligence of the death 
of Aurelius, are said to have come to Bri-. 
tain with a great force, from Germany, 
probably trom Saxony to the south of the 
Elbe. They attacked the northern parts 
Britons on one side, and the Saxons, Picts, 
my 
Cadder, Duke of Cornubia, to at- 
Qu 
fect, that Baldulph was routed. Yet the 
latter contrived to join his brother in the 
besieged city; he had his hair and heard 
(a! >) 
equipped he entered the hostile camp, 
and sas in the night hoisted over the wall 
into the city, where he gave an account 
to his brother of the situation of their af 
pe 
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