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XL. A Dissertation on Julius Caesar's Passage over the River Thames. By Samuel Gale, Esquire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The passage of Julius Caesar over the river Thames, to attack the famous Cassivellaun, and the army of Britons under his command, who were drawn up upon the opposite bank to hinder his crossing there, is a matter of so great antiquity, that, though it has been in general well attested by several historians, yet, as to the particular place where this remarkable event happened, there have been various opinions and conjectures; which for brevity omitting, I shall endeavour to set this affair in as clear a light as possible, by laying before you the most authentic evidences.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1770

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page 183 note [t] De Bello Gallico, lib. v.

page 184 note [u] Somner, Jul. Caesaris Portus Iccius, p. 76.

page 184 note [x] German. Antiquit. lib. ii. p. 10.

page 184 note [y] Antonin. Itiner. in initio.

page 184 note [z] Descript. Historique, Geograph. de la France, antienne et moderne. Paris, 1722, Part I. p. 58.

page 184 note [a] Lib. iii. cap. 2.

page 184 note [b] Lib. iii. cap. 10.

page 184 note [c] Lib. i. cap. 23.

page 185 note [d] In his Appendix.

page 185 note [e] Antiquitates Rutupinae, p. 48.

page 187 note [f] De Bello Gall. lib. v.

page 187 note [g] Anton. Iter Britt. et T. Gale, p. 72.

page 188 note [h] Camden's Brit. in Surrey.

page 188 note [i] Hist. of Engl. p. 55.

page 188 note [k] Eccles. Hist. lib. i. cap. 2.

page 189 note [l] Since the writing of this, one of these stakes, entire, was actually weighed up between two loaded barges at the time of a great flood, by the late Reverend Mr. Clark junior, of Long Ditton.