Of the latter fort is the Celtic nation. Situated early weft of Greece and Rome, their learning and hiftory, fuch powerful rivals having fprung up to the eaft of them, either remained with themfelves, or emigrated from the continent to Britain and the adjacent iflands. Greece, at one time, fubjeding the Eaft, and Rome afterwards becoming miftrefs both of the Eaft and Weft, the Galic power either decreafed or retreated, and, in room of Galic, Roman learning fucceeded.
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