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]f^8THE HISTORYI shoii'd not forget here, that, upon the discoveryof Thule by Pytheas, one Antonius Dioj-enestvrote a romance in twenty four books, which heintituFd the Lio edibilities of Thule; where he laidhis scene, and whereof Photius has given someaccount*. I have dwelt the longer upon theseilands, because they did not onely, like the otherparts of Britain, abound with Druids, who havethere left various memorials of themselves: butalso because the last footing they had in the%vorld was here, which makes it little less thanessential to my subject. Nor was it in the He ofMan alone, that a peculier government was setup by their procurement or approbation ;as you"have read in my second letter of their disciple, theadmirable legislature Manannan.There was likewiseanother government of their erection, singularenough, in the Hebudest ;where better provi-^\on was made against the changing of an electiveinto a hereditary monarchy, and against all otherexorbitances of the prince, than ever I read in anyauthor antient cr modern. Soliiius, speaking ofthese ilands, " there is one king," says he J,'^ overJ''T*fT i;^*^ ©iuXcv avi^oti -htyoi }ih In Bibliotheca, cod. 16(3.f Another name for the Western lies, eqtrivalent tothe He.brides : if they were not originally the same, having perhaps bythe mistake of transcribers been written for each other;nothingbeing easier, than to confound ui with ri, or ri with ni, as an.tiently written.X Rex unus est unirersis:nam quotquot sunt, omnes angiista;fnterluvie di?iduntur. Rex nihil suum habot, omnia uuifcrs©^