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«imilar, in their general habits — in their mihtary art, and
resources, to each other, as they were also to the Bclgis of
Kent; though headed by a prince of the Cassil or Catti,
of Herts and Middlesex y and thouoh consisting, in part, of
the Ceni Magni, or / Ceni, of Norfolk, Suffolk, ^c. . ,
The monuments vie call Dru'idical, must be appropriated,
exclusively, to the Aborigines of the midland, apd western
divisions. They are found in such corners, and fastnesses, as
have, in all ages, and countries, been the last retreat of the
conquered, and the last that are occupied by the victorious.
— In ÍValcs, and in Mono, they were used, and venerated,
until the Aborigines were completely subjugated by Roman
arms. In the central counties, and in the west, they per-
petually occur, from Cornwall to Cumberland : whereas,
comparatively, few traces of them are discovered in the
Eastern part of the Island, which therefore appears to have
been occupied by those people who did not construct build-
ings of this nature, and who obtained possession, before the
Aborigines deeply impressed their character upon the soil.
In that eastern division, besides the Corii, Coitani, &c.
we find the race of Brigantes. This name did not confine
itself to the Counti/ of York. Galgacus, in Taeitus, ap-
plies it, emphatically, to the Iceni, Ceni-tnagni, or Tigeni.
They were probably, then, all of the same root, or stock.
After the Iceni, in our maps, come Trinovantes, Cassii, or
Cattii, Cattieu-Chlani, (clans or children of the Cat-
ti,) 8cc.
The very same descriptions of tribes, which are found in
thiâ part of England, frequently occur in Ireland, in Scot-
land, and in the known possessions of British Belgce; but