The Brigantes still continued their ancient way of life by pasturage and hunting.

In this respect alone they differed: so that what we shall say, in treating of their manners, is equally applicable to both.

And though the Britons were further divided into an innumerable multitude of lesser tribes and nations, yet all being the branches of these two stocks, it is not to our purpose to consider them more minutely.
Britain was in the time of Julius Caesar what it is at this day, in climate and natural advantages, temperate and reasonably fertile.

But destitute of all those improvements which in a succession of ages it has received from ingenuity, from commerce, from riches and luxury, it then wore a very rough and savage appearance.

The country, forest or marsh; the habitations, cottages; the cities, hiding-places in woods; the people naked, or only covered with skins; their sole employment, pasturage and hunting.