The evidences of _Hercules_ planting _Britain_, are of the like nature, which I shall very briefly recapitulate. _Apollodorus_ in II. after the story of _Hercules_, _Antæus_ and _Geryon_, two kings in _Afric_ and _Spain_, mentions his conquering _Alebion_ and _Dercynus_ sons of _Neptune_, in the same mythologic strain as the others, because they attempted to drive away his oxen. He makes it to be in _Libya_, others in _Ligya_ or _Liguria_, others in _Gaul_. The variety of places is of no consequence in these very old stories. I regard only the personal names of _Albion_ and _Bergion_, as more commonly call’d, sons of _Neptune_. If this be really so, sons of _Tarshish_, son of _Javan_: for _Tarshish_ was the true _Neptune_ of the heathen; and he was one of the sons to whom the heathen generally attribute the plantation of islands, as well as _Moses_, _Gen._ x. 5. But _Albion_ and _Bergion_ are notoriously most ancient names of _Britain_ and _Ireland_. _Mela_, II. 5. mentions _Hercules_ fighting _Albion_ and _Bergion_. So _Tzetzes in chiliad._ and _Tzetzes_ the interpreter of _Lycophron_. _Tacitus_ says expressly _Hercules_ was in _Germany_, in that part lying upon the ocean especially. _Ammianus Marcellinus_, in his XV. 9. tells us from _Timagenes_, an ancient historian, “that the _Dorienses_ following the more ancient _Hercules_, inhabited the western countries bordering on the ocean.” By mount _Carmel_ was a city _Dora_ spoken of by _Josephus_, and by _Stephanus_ of _Byzantium_, quoting _Hecatæus_, and many more old authors. See the famous fragment of _Stephanus_. _Claudius Julius_, in his III. of the _Phœnician_ history, writes, “next to _Cæsarea_ is _Dora_, inhabited by _Phœnicians_ on account of the great quantity of the purple fish there found.” Now _Hercules_ being confessedly the inventor of this _Tyrian_ dye, ’tis probable the companions of his, mention’d by _Ammianus_, were of this city. If _Hercules_ peopled the ocean, coasts of _Gaul_, _Spain_ and _Germany_, we may well imagine he would do the like in _Britain_. _Pliny_’s testimony is express, that _Melcarthus_ (corruptly _Midacritus_) first brought _tyn_ from the _Cassiterid_ islands, which can be no other than _Britain_. The poets and mythologists, when speaking of the _Titans_, agree they went all into the west, which seems to be meant of _Hercules_ and his people settling in _Britain_. Our _Thule_, or northern island, seems to have been named by our _Hercules_, as a demonstration of his being there, from an island of the same name in the _Persian_ gulph. Of which _Bochart_. The like is to be inferr’d from such stories as that related by _Parthenius Nicæus_, “that _Hercules_ travelling, after his expedition against _Geryon_, pass’d thro’ the country of the _Celts_, and was entertain’d by _Britannus_. His daughter _Celtine_ fell in love with him, on whom he begat a son call’d _Celtus_; from him afterwards the people of the _Celts_ received their denomination.”