Capitolo 5
has been built, according to ancient histories, from Hercules as
monuments put above for marking the extreme limits of its western vagabondages.
Brutus passed through the narrow one, and then, turning toward north, it coasted along
along the beaches of Spain.
For a long time, later bearing her great deprivations and suffered possession, and
meeting the extreme dangers to which you/they were their fragile barking
necessarily perpetually exposed by the surges from which you/they roll in
the wide Atlantic ocean on the coast of Spain and in the Bay of
Biscay, they arrived in safe on the beaches of Britain. They disembarked and
explored the inside. They found the island dressed in the richest
drapery of the fruitfulness and vegetable, but you/he/she was occupied not by some
human creature of thing. There were wild beasts that err in the forests and the
rests of a run of giants in calm place and caverns--the monsters as different
from humanity as the wolves. Brutus and his/her followers attacked everybody
these occupants of the earth. They drove the wild beasts in the
mountains of Scotland and Wales, and killed the giants. The head of
theirs whose name was Gogmagog, was launched within one of the followers of Brutus
from the top of one of the chalky cliffs that you/they limited the island
in the sea.
The island of Great Britain is in the latitude of Labrador that on
our side of the continent is the synonym for almost perpetual ice and
snow; he/she anchors this wandering Trojans it found him/it a region of inexhaustible
vegetable, the fruitfulness and the beauty; and as to his/her extension, although often,
in the modern durations, he/she called a small island, they found his/her green fields
and luxuriant forests that extend very distant and wide on the sea. A
length of almost six hundred miles would almost seem to deserve the
name of continent, and the dimensions of this outpost detached of
the habitable surface of the earth would never have been held
inconsiderable, you/he/she had been not him but the people, from the greatness of