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24 ; TB? Ht 9tT-0i R Y Bppk I. Duripg the cqfftmupnoe Q& tJw.s* Ij>ritL(h fertrsi* ifo the Cftftl^- field* the whple extended cqufltry aroiu)4 i$ wuft twe bqeo o#p* hrge> wqqd^ - vfiwh beg^i* iRWdwteljr op. the, owkGde qf tfep: baxriers, aijfj. JifF^fe4 itftlf fcr ft qQi?fi4er al^le. Tp^ce. ^opnd'&fiOX 1 V And, the^ppgulaf, dejapi^^W^^ tfo.*cpqd, ojpong fch& Brim*? • pf this r,egipr pv& lier^ft^er appeim tp ha#e been- Atcfoi *V Tfcip was the, conwnpn ap^pll^ipij, of fp«;e$& syppng the; Bfjtpns ia generaj,. fcptjaths wjjjdjy exteji(iye : oije which covered more than l>aj^f th^ cpflpty: q£ tyTaijwickp, »iid the fife qf which #Ui netfiiijr eth t^.xifp^of' Ardpn, to th£ mud>J5ji4ll^f one* that farrpuqded : ]V$a/iceniqi* ( This, TO , $qv?JU# t^ : c<^ipfliba 4 appelUtibu.o£ fpr,e#? among t^ek brethren of Flanders qnd. q£; Scotland,, ^n^'wz&orir gin^Jiy wijgten. Ardpea qr Ardvej}. 1 ** Ajad tfrig. original mode qf wtipg tjhe naip? (fejfloftftrfltes it to, be cpnqjpjjtfided,, ijof of £r. the prspppfitiye ;a*:t;plp ii* Celtic *ad,thp fubffc^tf jye ; Pen, . a? , th# gre# oracular* interprets* q£ the Roroan^BrtfijOb ajjpe^iiw?. flste&ijt tp be ,5 ,. but.p£ Axdr m, adjfid&ve *wl Ven. the. fanje a?. Pen, The msapiflg of the i^mc therefore i& got,, msu Baxter senders it* fjinply the^hills, or* e^ea 3* the ingeftipus tra^flator of Oifiaa i:en,dfir5 it, the, high h;lk A*d %nifa? either, high or Ijreat, ap4 Vei* pr Pen in^>qrts. either* at^hil}. ora wood. 1 *. , And fyjd'they fijgn^^d^t^ fttpagr ide^s onlty nether Gould h^yebeei* ever applied: tx> the fjte of: the Warwickshire, a^d the, Flanders foi;efts, wjychs h*ye fjc^rcsly a& hit]* and have- ngyer siv high- bill* within, their whple ejfltsok. Arduen Ardven or Arden v7 iig- nifies. die; great wood.. Hence the name was* applied tp the Arden of Qtfian,, a part- of which is* fynonymoufly denominated Morvqn or the great Ven,. and the whole of whfch is chara£ter~ ized as uncommonly woody I8 .. Hence, and. hepge only, the: aame became applicable tp-fuch.very different fitps as the, plains of Warwickfliire and Flanders„and the hills of Scotland. And. hence the name became applied, not only to the moft cpnfiderable fprefb, tp that whiqh was the ^reateft in Gaul, or tp that which, was ft* great in Britain, but- to many that were confiderable only w^thift their, own cpntra£bed diftrifts,. to the fbreft of Morvem. and to. the wood of Mancenion. The latter mufl have parti- cularly