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ico THE H'lSTORr '* Book I.' y - . being certainly the aborigines of the country, as the Belgae had certainly never penetrated fo far into the ifland,as the Caflii, the great enemies of the ?elgae and the conquerors of the Belgic Trinovantes, lay immediately to the fouth of them, and as they themfelvcs had under Boadicea deftroyed the town of London, though it was. no colony or municlpium like Verulam or Col - chefter, and confequently was not, like them, inhabited by the Romans, inhabited as it certainly was by the Belgic Trinovantes in particular, and frequented as it certainly was by many of "the Belgic traders in general 3 V The other nation of the Iceni is called Coritani by Ptolemy, Corii by Ravennas, and Corii and-Coitaiini by Richard 14 . The Itineraries of Richard and Ptolemy mention a city belonging to this people and call it Ratis-Corioni exhibiting the name Corii in the pofleffive cafe plural, dfid Writing it with the Greek ter- mination Koouov. And fome other fimilar terminations occur in Antoninus and in both ; Ptorotone and Canttopelfc in Richard,. Catarradoni and Glebon in Richard and Antoninus, and an in- finite variety in Raveimas u . The name of this nation therefore appears plainly to have been Corii, Coritani, and CoitannL The laft appellatibh of them, which literally fignifies The Wood- landers, is evidently derived from the Coit-en or woods which m<?re particularly covered the lurface of their country * And the two others are clearly derivfed from that one remarkable cir- cumftance in their condition of which the, extreme woodinfcfs of their country 1 is a fufficient argument, the fewne{s of their num- bers and the infigriificancy of their kingdom* The Corii mean die Little People ", and Cori-tan imports the country of the Corii. Their large dominions being very nearly one extenfive foreft* the peftple muft have; been certainly .few and the date muft have? been tertainly infignificant. • Thus denominated,' they were originally diftm& from th? Iceni and independent of them * They were iubjeft only to their own metropolis and were governed only by their own monarch. * : Their metropolis is denominated Ratae in the Iti- aoera of Richard Aiuwwnus and Ravennas, Ragae in all the copies nearly