Observations on the power of climate over the policy, strength, and manners of nations.
- Date:
- 1774
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the power of climate over the policy, strength, and manners of nations. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ] but were always repulfed. • Ten years after we find them driven by Paulinus Suetonius into the ifland of Anglefea, who pafling his troops over the found* which feparates that Ifland from the con¬ tinent of Britain, routed their army, con¬ fining of men, women, children, and druids, who were drawn up on the oppo- fite ihore, and were endeavouring to firike a terror into the Romans, by a {hocking exhibition of their horrid reli¬ gious ceremonies: but Roman tyranny forces the Britons once more into a gene¬ ral confederacy j the cunning of Prafatu- gus, in making Casfar joint heir with his daughters, could not fecure his family againft the cruel injuries of thefe invaders; his queen Boadicea was whipped, his daughters were ravifhed by the centurions and foldiers; roufed by thefe infufferable adts of violence to a refolution of taking a fudden revenge, they fall upon the gar- rifons of London and Verulam, and maf- facre to the number of 70,000 Romans, before Suetonius had returned from his ex¬ pedition : the Roman general taking with him](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30790347_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
