On The Native Levies Raised by The Romans in Britain

As to the manner in -which the Romans levied their auxiliary forces amongst all the subject nations of the Empire, we are left entirely without information ; nor can any exact or well-defined knowledge be gathered from the writers of antiquity as to the numerical constitution of the various bodies into which they were formed-the cohort, the cuneus, the ala, the numerus, and the vexillation.Of the motley horde of barbarian irregulars brought by the Romans on to British soil, we can form a very good idea, and various authors have endeavoured to supply an accurate list of their names, as Brady, Horsley

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