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Chap. HI. OF -MANCHESTER. 61 or Morini lived in Dorfetfhire, and had Durinum, Durnovaria, orDorchefter for their capital. TheHaedui filled all Somerfetfhire to the iEftuary Uxella, Bridgewater Bay, or the river Ivel on the fouth, the fcuth-weft of Gloucefterlhire to the hills of Wotton- Under-Edge or its vicinity, and the north-weft of Wiltfhire to the Avon and to Creeklade Thefe however appear evidently from Ptolemy to have been fubdued by the Belgse, their country being exprefsly af bribed to that people by Ptolemy *. The Cimbri extended over the reft of Somerfetfhire, except a linall part to the eaft of the Thone *°, and along the north of Cornwall as far as the river Cambala,the Camel, or Padftow Harbour ,x . The Carnabii fpread over the remainder of the north of Cornwall, and over all the fouth-weft as far as Falmouth Haven ". And the XHmnonii poflefi'ed originally the reft of Somerfetfhire 13 , the reft of Cornwall, and all Devonfliire. But before the coming of the Romans the Damnomi had fubdued both the- Carnabii and Cimbri, and had ufurped their dominions ■*. 15 Britannia Secunda % compfized all the country that lies be-, yond the Severn and the Dee, contained three tribes of the Bri- tons, and reckoned about twenty ftations under Ifca or Caerleon its Capital. The Silures inhabited originally the counties of Hereford Radnor u and Monmouth, and the fmali portion of Gloucestershire which is to the weft of the Severne, and ac- knowledged Caer Gwent in Monmouthfhire for their metropolis? but afterwards conquered both the Ordovices and the Dimetae that bordered upon them. The Ordovices at the Roman inva- fion pofleffed all North-Wales, the counties of Montgomery Me- rioneth Caernarvon Denbigh and Flint, except a frnall part of the laft county adjoining to Banchor and belonging to the Carnabii ; but previoufly poffefled fome adjoining regions of Flavia which fhall be fpecified hereafter *?. And the Dimetae inhabited all the reft ©f Sovtt h- Wales ,. the counties of Cardigan Pembroke Caei> marthen Glamorgan and Brecknock ; aad Muridunum or Caer- marthen was their capitak u Flavia, or (as it was firft denominated)- Caefarienfis ,p , or (as it is therefore called in the Notitia) Flavia Caefarienfis, took in all