In which Place he makes use of a Poetical License, and calls those People _Chayci_, which the Geographers call _Chauci_. Now that they were seated near the Sea, that Panegyrical Oration made to _Constantine_ the Great, is a Testimony: "_Quid loquar rursus_, &c. What should I speak more of those remote Nations of the _Franks_, transplanted not from Places which the _Romans_ of old invaded; but plucked from their very original Habitations, and their _farthest Barbarous Shores_, to be planted in the waste Places of _Gallia_; where with their Husbandry, they may help the _Roman_ Empire in time of Peace; and with their Bodies, supply its Armies in time of War--." And in another Panegyrick, by _Eumenius_ the Rhetorician, we find this Passage, "_Aut haec ipsa_, &c. Or this Country, which was once overspread with the Fierceness of the _Franks_, more than if the Waters of their Rivers, _or their Sea_, had cover'd it;" but now ceases to be barbarous, and is civilized. To the same Purpose is _Procopius_ Testimony, in his first Book of the _Gothick War_; for where he describes the place where the _Rhine_ falls into the Ocean; "In these Parts (says he) there are great Marshes, where of old the _Germans_ dwelt; a barbarous People, and at that time of small Reputation, which now are called _Franks_--." And _Zonaras_, in the 3d Tome of his _Annals_, quotes this very Passage of _Procopius_. Also _Flavius Vopiscus_, in his Life of _Probus_, tells us, That the _Franks_ were discomfited by _Probus_ in their inaccessible Marshes.--_Testes sunt Franci inviis strati paludibus._ Also _Sidonius Apollinaris_ says thus; "_Francorum & penitissimas paludes, Intrares venerantibus Sicambris._" Now what we have said concerning the Neighbourhood of the _Franks_ to the _Chauci_, may be plainly proved by comparing of Places, and the Descriptions of their particular Seats. Those of the _Chauci_ are described by _Pliny_, _lib._ 16. _cap._ 1. Those of the _Franks_ by the _Rhetorician Panegyrist_, above mentioned: For _Pliny_ says thus, "We have seen in the _Northern_ parts the Nations of the _Chauci_, called _Majores & Minores_, where twice every 24 Hours the Ocean is forcibly driven in a great way over the Land; thro' a vast Passage which is there, making it a perpetual Controversy of Nature; and a Doubt, whether it ought to be reckon'd part of the Land or of the Sea." The Panegyrist speaks in these Terms, "_--Quanquam illa Regio_, &c. When thy noble Expeditions, O _Caesar_, have proceeded so far, as to clear and conquer that Country, which the _Rhine_ runs through, with his cunning Maeanders or Windings, [_Meatibus callidis_, for so it must be read, and not _Scaldis_, as in some Copies,] and embraces in his Arms a Region, which I can scarce call Land; 'tis so soak'd with Water, that not only the Marshy part of it gives way, but even that which seems more firm, shakes when trod upon, and trembles at a Distance under the Weight of the Foot."