Brute let fell down woods, and let ear and sow lands, and also let mow down meadows, for sustenance of him and his people. And then he departed' the land to them; so that everyche3 of them had a part, and a certain place for to dwell in.

And then Brute let call this land Britain, after his own name, and his folk he let call Britons. And this Brute had gotten on his wife Gennogen, three sons, that were worthy of deeds. The first was called Lotrin; the second, Albanak; and the third, Cambar. And Brute bare crown in the city of Troy, twenty year after the time that the city was made. And there he made the laws that the Britons hold. And this Brute was wonderly well beloved among all men. And Brute's sons also loved wonderly well together.

And when Brute had sought all the land in length, and also in breadth, he found a land that joined to Britain, that was in the north; and that land Brute yave to Albanak, his son; and let call it Albany, after his name, that now is called Scotland. And Brute found another country toward the west, and gave that to Cambar, his other son, and let call it Cambar, after his name, and now is called Wales. And when Brute had reigned twenty year, as before is said, then he died in the city of New Troy.

In the description of Britain, by Harrison, prefixed to Holinshed's Chronicle, the story of the first peopling of this island, is mixed up of partly true, and partly fabulous materials. According to that historian, Britain was at first

a parcel of the Celtic kingdom, whereof Dis, otherwise called Samothes, one of the sons of Japhet, was the Saturn, or original beginner; and of him thenceforth, for a long time, called Samothea." He arrived in 1910 from the creation. But the succession of princes descended from the line of Japhet, after having continued during 341 years, was interrupted by the invasion of Albion, the son of Neptune, (surnamed Mareoticus,) and Amphitrite, who subdued Britain, and imposed on it his own name. His reign, which lasted only seven years, terminated with his life, on the following occasion: Lestrigo, the brother of Albion, was at this time king of Italy, and about to be invaded by Hercules (then in Spain) who had sworn eternal enmity to the whole race of Osyris, the grandfather of Lestrigo, on account of their tyranny. Albion, and his brother Bergion, (who was supreme governor of the Orcades), joined their forces to aid Lestrigo in this extremity. But encountering Hercules and his party, at the mouth of

Rhodanus, a terrible conflict ensued, in which the British princes were finally discomfitted and slain. The name of Albion, however, remained to the country through a space of 595 years; that is, till the time of Brute, who arrived in 1127 before Christ, (for the author is very accurate in his chronology;) and 2840 after the creation.

The same author, in his fourth chapter, discusses the question, "Whether it is likely that there were ever any giants, inhabiting in this isle?" And after mentioning numerous instances of gigantic remains being found in Britain and elsewhere, he cites the following story from Trallianus, in support of the opinion:

"In the days of Tiberius, the emperor, (says he,) a corpse was left bare, or laid open, after an earthquake, of which each tooth contained twelve inches over, at the least. Now, forasmuch as in such as be full-mouthed, each chap hath sixteen teeth at the least, which is thirty-two in the whole, needs must that the wideness of this man's chaps be sixteen foot,and the opening of his lips ten. A large mouth in mine opinion, and not to feed with ladies of my time; besides that, if occasion served it was able to receive the whole body of a man,

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I mean of such as florish in our days. When this carcass was thus found, every man marvelled at it, and good cause why. A messenalso was sent unto Tiberius, the emperor, to know his pleasure, whether he would have the same brought over unto Rome, or not? but he forbade them; willing his legate not to move the dead out of his resting place, but rather to send him a tooth out of his head; which being done, he gave the same to a cunning workman, commanding him to shape a carcass, of light matter, after the proportion of the tooth, that at the least, by such means, he might satisfy his curious mind, and the phantacies of such as are delighted with news.

"To be short, when the image was once made, and set up an end, it appeared rather an huge collossy, then the true representation of the cascass of a man. And when it had stand in Rome, until the people were weary of it, and thoroughly satisfied with the sight thereof, he caused it to be broken all in pieces, and the tooth sent again to the carcass from whence it came, willing them moreover to cover it diligently, and in any wise not to dismember the corpse, nor from thenceforth to be so hardy as to open the sepulchre any more."

DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND.

CAXTON, about three months after his printing the above Chronicles of England, printed a little tract in folio, of the same size with the Chronicles, which he called "The Description of England, Wales, and Scotland, and also Ireland." This book, as before observed, is usually joined with the Chronicles; and was printed from Trevisa's translation of the Polychronicon. It was afterwards reprinted with the "Fructus Temporum," &c. in the edition of it by Julian Notary, in 1515. The following rubrics are prefixed:

"1. Here followeth a little treatise, the which treateth of the description of this land, which of old time was named Albion, and after Britain, and now is called England; and speaketh of the nobleness and worthyness of the same.