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Chap. XIL OF MANCHESTER.. 4*9 p # 94. — « Cingetorix and Taximagulus, two Kentifh poten- " tates, Carvilius chief of the Carvilii in Wilts, and Segonax " prince of the Segontiaci in Hampshire." The making Carvilius chief of the Carvilii, a tribe exifting only in fancy, and Segonax. prince of the Segontiaci, a tribe much too remote to be concerned in an attack upon Caefar's naval camp, is bor- rowed from the very fanciful frequently ingenious but generally miftaken Baxter. And Stukeley in his Stonehenge has adopted the fame wild fancy. But Caefar exprefsly declares them all to have been of Kent, — Cantium — quibus regionibus iv reges prae- erant (p. 92). P. 91, 98, 100, 104, 114, and 1 19.* — Great miftakes concerning the pofition of the Britifh tribes, P. 103. — " In all the territories of the Damnonii no Roman " ftations." There were Ifca Damnoniorum, Cenia, Voluba, Durius Amnis, and Tamara, which Ptolemy and the Itineraries mention, befides various others without queftion of which we have no account. P. 128. — " Hadrian withdrew the garrifbiis from the north of « c his own wall," How unjuft this affertion is, the prefent chapter fufficiently fliews. O003 ADDt