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178 THE HISTORY
morican Britain being probably the province,
wherein Bretannus rul'd (since we find it insinuated,
that Hercules had penetrated far to come to
him) 'tis still more than probable, that it was denominated
from him; as I shall prove beyond the
possibility of contradiction, that our Britain had
its name from that of Gaule, as New England has
from the old. Hesychius, in the word Bretannus,
is of the same opinion with me. So is Dionysius
Periegetes *, with his commentator Eustathius f
and I am not a little countenanced by Pliny the
elder, who places Britons:]: on the maritim coasts
of Gaule over against Great Britain. But I have
moi'e evidence still. To say nothimg at present of
Csesar so many ages before Eustathius, Tacitus
likewise among the antients§, Beda among thoso
of the middle ages||, and some of the most cele-
LySx BjSTavsi,
Ytr. sa-t.
5: A Scaldi incolunt extera Toxandri pluribus noininibus:
(leinde Menapij, Morini, Oromansaci juncti Pago qui Gessoria.
cus Tocatur: Brilanni*, Amljlan;, Bellovaci, Hassi. Nat. Hist,
lib. 4. cap, 17.
§ In uni?ersum tamea a:stimanti, Gallos vicinum solum occu.
passe credibile est: eorum sacra deprehendas, superstilionum
persuasione: Sermo baud multum diversus, &c. Ht, Jgrk,
cap. 11.
II
Ilaic Insula Britones solilni, a quibus nomen accepit, inco.
las habuit; qui de tractu Armoricano, utfertur, Britanniam ad.
vecti, australes sibi partes illius TJndicarunt. Hist. Eccles. lib. 1
cop, 1,
• In quibnsdara cxemplaiibus, sej perpeiafn, Ih ivmi.