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, Printed by J. Wright, Denmark-Court, Strand, FOR CLARKE AND CO. MANCHESTER; W. JONES. LIVERPOOL; HAZARD, BATH; AND RAWSON AND CO. HULL. 1803. B 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 B fertile, |