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AN

ABRIDGMENT

OF THE

HISTORY

OF

ENGLAND,

FROM THE

INVASION OF JULIUS CÆSAR,

TO THE

DEATH OF GEORGE THE SECOND.

By Dr. GOLDSMITH.

AND CONTINUED, BY AN EMINENT WRITER,
TO THE PEACE OF AMIENS,

Printed by J. Wright, Denmark-Court, Strand,

FOR CLARKE AND CO. MANCHESTER; W. JONES.

LIVERPOOL; HAZARD, BATH; AND

RAWSON AND CO. HULL.

1803.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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RITAIN was but very little known to the reft of the world before the time of the Romans. The coafts oppofite Gaul were frequented by merchants who traded thither for fuch commodities as the natives were able to produce. Thefe, it is thought, after a time, poffeffed themfelves of all the maritime places where they had at firft been permitted to refide. There, finding the country

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fertile,