Note 10 — BOOK IV.
Reading edition
—Page 259, stanza xxxviii.
Drawn on the sands lay coracles of hide.
The ancient British boats, covered with coria or hydes—"The ancient Britons," as Mr. Pennant observes, "had them of large size, and even made short voyages in them, according to the accounts we receive from Lucan."—Pennant, vol. i. p. 303.