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Chap.X. OP MAN CHEST**. $# Pliny lib. x. c 21. Sec two antient reprefeotatieris of a RcMaa* hen-pen in Montfaucon's Ant. Expl. torn. ii. plates $3. N* J* apd 64. N° 1.— ,e Diq p. 1280— "Ibid— 11 Pliny lib. ix. a 54^ 13 Juvenal's fourth Sat. and fee Camden p. 236,— '* Pliny c. 54* lib. ix.~- M Pliny lib. x. c. 20.— I6 Varro lib. iil c. 12. — ,7 PUn/ c. s$- lib. viii.-. xg Pliny lib. x.c. 9— ,9 C. 29. lib. x*— - Pliaf lib. x. c. 489 and lib. xix. c. 4. II. AS the general face of the ifland was everywhere tufted. . wjtfr large woods at this period % fo fome particular diftri&s wqre co- vered with immenfe forefts. Three of thefe were diitingHfAed orcr the reft by the wild extenfiveneis of their range. One of them .was in Scotland, and lined all the hill* in the central »• giotis of the Highlands Another was the great foieft of the Goskani, which contained federal towns and the feats of a whole nation within it, and which draggled over the five whole coon- ties of Lincoln Nottingham Derby Leicefter and Rutland, and even fuch parts of Notthamptonihiie as lie to the north of the Neii But the third was ftill larger than either, and {weft acrofs tile fcuth of the ifland for an hundred and fifty mile* to- gether, ranging even from Kent Into Somerterihire Thefe n*- ottiandy remained the fecure harbours and the great nurferiesof ♦he Many wild beafts which were then produced m the coutotvy. And 'from thefe the lefier woods and the more diminutive fe- wfts of the Jtingdom muft have been perpetually replenished with a new *ecitok of beads. In this appearance of Britain, the fpim of banting which a&uated the primaeval Britons would undoubtedly be kept alive in the Roman by the ncarfy equid frequency x>f the game m the woods, and by the nearly equal necemty of preventing its incrcafe upon them. ' And the beafts which roamed ip the Britifli woods and were chaced by.tfce |hi- tiflv hunters were thefe. ^ X at Branching