Muscipula sive Cambromyomachia: The mouse-trap, or The battle of the Welsh ...

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the country. Theas ut mero calle σπινθαι, in the langvage os Phrygia, liene the above numeria evidently derived.-One of the choliast o Homer says tha Apolloma a namedi his pries Chryses, hos gardens and fruita mero preservθd, by him, hom the devastationis rata. Either state ment proves tho classic propriet of the appellation, by our author in his invocation to the god of the sine arta in an undertaking, in Whichino specie of heas animal Waario bear a conspicuous a pari.

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APPENDIX. Thasive thought it morti milito, to observo the artifiemosthe animal, he thua employ d, cannot nil toto impresse mitti the apinps an beaut and vigour os the description. The sanie remurks are equali applicabis to the descriptionis the fame animal aster stie has captured

o the translation. ΝOTEM PAGE 14. Sic Cambri, Φc.-Line M. Mince the Cambrians, cyc.-Line 64. The etsi are supposed to es the descendant of the Cimbrian or Cymrai Gauis, lio made a fetilement in England about eight years besore therarsi descenti Iulius Caesar and there hy obtaine the nam eis Gallies, orWallies, ilio G and Wieing used promiscuo usi by the ancient Britona, that is, strano ers. The allusion in this Verse, is no a mere poetic funcy, bucis seunded onmot bis and weli attosted historical facis. The Romans, with ali heimskill and promess,mere nevise able to subduo theselfh, tili the eiguis Vespasian. And the Saxons, aster making themselves master of ali England neve go possessionis an partis ales, except the counties of onmouth and Hereford, whicli sor- meri belongesto theirincipality. When tho Heptarchy, or the government of the severi Saxonaingdoms, wa establislied in Britain, A. D. J47, after a violsnt contestis almos Ibinyears to hicli thomhole outher pari os tho IAland was Eubjected Wales and Cornwallislone ero excepte from tu dominion .- The inhabitants of illese provinces,when attached by theirenemies, sed into the remoto valley an inaccessibi mountains of thoi territories, and there reposed Aecurelysrom the lar of thei invadera Thus hil Englandminglexit population it strangers, an exchange ita langunge, cuatom an politica institutions for thoseos their eonquerors, the olfh retain theira, in ararent mensure, to the presentiay. The gentry pride themselves greatly in the antiquit os thei families, an are veryland of earrying bae thei pedigroea, to the mos remote

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88 APPENDIIc.

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io the oldest somnione.

an extensive ruin.

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name, Eaid to have been hilled, 800 years besore the birthos Christ. Othera derive the nam stommor, signifying