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               STON E-LIEN 0 Reflored.                              9
   Thus, you fee, in what Condition the Inhabitants of this Ifland,
 lived in thofe ancient Times, having of themfelves, neither Defire,
 nor Ability to exercife, nor from others, Encouragement to attain
 whatever Knowledge in the Art of Building. Precepts, and Rules
 therein, the Druids neither could, nor would impart unto thei
 That they could not, appears from what is formerly faid, and ini
 what skilful above others, they communicated nothing, but to thofie
 of their own Society, taking fpecial Order (as Cefar affirms) their
 Difcipline might not be divulged.,
   As for Colonies of any Nation pra&ifed in Arts, from whom
 they might receive or Knowledge, or civil Converfation, there were
 none fettled amongft them,: neither had they Commerce, or Traf-
 ick, with any People experienced therein, much lefs Acquaintance
 with any other, except thofe of Gaul, well near as barbarous as
 themfelves. None of the Gauls in a Manner, had any Knowledge
 (faith Cefar) of the Nature and .Quality of the Peop eof Britain, .ar. lib.
 or of the Plces? Ports, or   a      feque enimA,
 temerk pret     7 To77 ,            quam, neque iis iplfis quid-:
 quam, _prxter oram maritimam, atque eas regiones que funt con-
 tra Galliam, notum eft. For, not any went thither without im-
 ninent Danger, except Merchants, and they a o could give ac-
 count of otking, fave only the Sea-coaji, and thofe Countries which
 were oppofe to Gaul.   Never any Colony of the Greeks, for ought
 know    (faith Ortelius) was feated in Britain. And Cfar,  the ora. dfcr.F,.
Jrfi of all the Romans that diftovered it, faith Camden.        Camdef.2.
   If Defire neverthelefs, to know in what Times the ancient Bri-
 tains began to be civilized, when to learn the Knowledge of Arts,
 to build fRatelyTemples, Palaces, publick Buildings, to be eloquent
 in foreiga Languages, and by their Habits, and Attire, attain the
 Qualities of a, civil, and well ordered' People, Tacitus fhall relate
 the fame.
   Sequens hiems faluberrimis conciliis bfumpta, &c. The Winter
 enfuing (being the fecond Year of Julius Agricola his Propretorbpi,
 or Lieutenancy in Britain ; Ttus   eJafan Emperor, about one
 hundred thirty three Years after the firft Difcovery thereof by Cefar)
 was ~pent in moji profitable, and politick Councils (faith Tacitus.) mt. i,  .
 For, vhereas the Britains were rude, and difperfed, and thereby dgr.
 prone, upon every Occaion, to War; Agricola, to induce them by
 P.leafure to Xsiuetnefs and Re#, exhorted them in Private, and
 helpt them in Common to build Temples, Houf2s, and Places of
 publick Refort, commending thofe that were forward therein, and
 punihing the Refratlory. Moreover, the Noblemens Sons he took,
 and in lruHed in the liberal Sciences, preferring the witS o Britain,
 to the Students in Gaul, as being now eagerl &mbtious to attain
 the Eloquence of the Roman Ton ue, whereas lately they utterl
 rej e/ed that Language. A!fter that, our Attire grew in Atccount,
 and the Gown much ufed amongft them, and fo by little and little
 they proceeded to Provocations of Vices, to fumptuous Galleries,
 Baths, and exquifite Ban quettings. Thus far Tacitus. Now had
 there been but' the leaft Mention made, by any Author, concern-
 ing the Druids inftrufting, and training up the ancient Britdins in
 any fuch Matters, as thefe, (which Tacitus remembers the Romans
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