CAESUS JULIUS, was born at Forum Julii, now Frejus, in Provence, A.D. 37, and was in Vespasian's time made lieutenant to Vettius Bolanus in Britain. Upon his return he was ranked by that emperor among the patriots, and made governor of Aquitania. This post he held for three years; he then was recalled to Rome, and chosen consul; and was appointed governor of Britain, where he greatly distinguished himself. He reformed many abuses occasioned by the avarice or negligence of former governors, put a stop to extortion, and caused justice to be impartially administered. Vespasian dying about this time, his son Titus, knowing the great merit of Agricola, continued him in the government. In the spring he marched towards the north, where he made new conquests, and ordered forts to be built for the Romans to winter in. He spent the following winter in concerting schemes to bring the Britons to conform to the Roman customs. He thought the best way of diverting them from their warlike propensities was to soften their rough manners by proposing to them new kinds of pleasure, and inspiring them with a desire of imitating the Roman manners. He encouraged the erection of magnificent temples, porticoes, baths, and other fine buildings. The British nobles at length had their sons educated in learning; and they who before had the utmost aversion to the Roman language, now began to study it with great assiduity. They wore likewise the Roman habit; and, as Tacitus observes, they were brought to consider those things as marks of politeness, which were only so many badges of slavery. Agricola, in his third campaign, advanced as far as the Tweed; and in his fourth he subdued the nations betwixt the Tweed and the firths of Forth and Clyde, into which the rivers Bodotria and Glotta discharged themselves; and here he built fortresses to shut up the nations yet unconquered. In his fifth he marched beyond the firths, where he made some new acquisitions, and fixed garrisons along the western coasts, over against Ireland. In his sixth campaign he passed the river Bodotria; ordering his fleet, the first which the Romans ever had in those parts, to row along the coasts, and take a view of the northern parts. In the following spring, the Britons raised an army of 30,000 men, under the command of Galgacus, to oppose the invaders. In the engagement that ensued the Romans gained the victory, and 10,000 of the Britons are said to have been killed. This happened in the reign of the Emperor Domitian, who, growing jealous of the glory of Agricola, recalled him, under pretence of making him governor of Syria. Agricola was in Britain fully seven years, from A.D. 78 to 85; and he died on the 23rd August, A.D. 93, when he had attained the age of 55. The great historian Tacitus, who was married to the daughter of Agricola, has written his life, one of the most beautiful specimens of biography ever composed. Agricola [properly Landmann], George, a German physician, famous for his skill in metals. He was born at Glaucha, in Misnia, March 24th, 1494. His discoveries in the mountains of Bohemia gave him so great a desire of examining accurately into every thing relating to metals, that though he had engaged in the practice of physic at Joachimstal by advice of his friends, he still prosecuted his study of fossils with great assiduity, and at length removed to Chemnitz, where he entirely devoted himself to this study. He spent in pursuit of it the pension he had from Maurice Duke of Saxony, and part of his own estate; so that he reaped more reputation than profit from his labours. His great work De Re Metallica contains many curious information. He died at Chemnitz on the 21st November 1555.