_a._ _Attrebates._--There were Attrebates both in Belgium and Britain; the Gaelic ones in _Artois_, which is only _Attrebates_ in a modern form. Considerable importance attaches to the fact, that before Cæsar visited Britain in person, he sent _Commius_, the Attrebatian, before him. Now, this Commius was first conquered by Cæsar, and afterwards set up as a king over the Morini. That Commius gave much of his information about Britain to Cæsar is likely; perhaps he was his chief informant. He, too, it was who, knowing the existence of Attrebates in Britain, probably drew the inference which has been so lately suggested, viz., that of a Belgæ migration, or a series of them. Yet the Attrebates of Britain were so far from being on the coast, that they must have lain west of London, in Berkshire and Wilts; since Cæsar, who advanced, at least, as far as Chertsey, where he crossed the Thames, meets nothing but Cantii, Trinobantes, Cenimagni, Segontiaci, Ancalites, Bibroci and Cassi. It is Ptolemy who first mentions the British _Attrebatii_; and he places them between the Dobuni and the Cantii. Now, as the Dobuni lay due west of the Silures of South Wales, we cannot bring the Attrebatii nearer the coast than Windsor. _b._ The _Belgæ_.--These--like the Attrebatii, first mentioned by Ptolemy--are placed south of the Dobuni, and on the sea-coast between the Cantii and Damnonii of Devonshire; so that Sussex, Hants, and Dorset, may be given them as their area. _c._ The _Remi_ are mentioned by no better an authority than Richard of Cirencester, as Bibroci under another name. _d._ The _Durotriges_, too, or people of _Dor_-set, are stated by the same authority to have been called _Morini_. _e._ _f._ In Ireland we have two populations with German names; the _Menapii_ and the _Chauci_, both in the parts about Dublin, and in the neighbourhood of one another. And these are mentioned by Ptolemy. Now, whatever these Belgic names prove, they do not prove Cæsar's statement that it was the _maritime parts of Britain which were Belgic_; since the Menapii and Chauci must have been wholly unknown to him, and the _Attrebatii_ lay inland. At the same time, they prove something. They also introduce difficulties in the very simple view that Britain was solely and exclusively British. This leads to a further consideration of the details. The _Remi_ may be disposed of first. They stand on bad authority, viz., that of a monk of the twelfth century.