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43* THE HISTORY • Book I, IV, Confederated with the Pi&s and the Saxons was another nation, that equally occafioned the Roman departure from our own Mancunium, and equally caufed the complicated calamities of Rom^n Britain. Thefe were the Scots, a nation that has been wildly derived from Scythia from Spain and from Cale- donia, whofe real origin has for a century and an half engaged two whole nations of contending antiquarians in war, and whofe real hiftory has hitherto remained involved in the obfcurities of 7 tradition and the dreams of conje&ure. But the origin of the Scots, I prefume, may now be, clearly afcertained. And the hi- itory of the Scots, I think, may now be authentically detailed. 1 The ifle of Ireland was inhabited *by eighteen tribes, by one upon the northern and three upon the fouthern fliore, by feven upon the weftern and fix upon the eaftern coaft, and by pne in the center. Along the eaftern fhore and the Vergivian .or Internal ocean were ranged the Damnii, the Voluntii, the Eblani, theCaucii, the Menapii, and the Coriondii. The Damnii inhabited a part of the two counties of Antrim and Down, ex* tending from Fair-Head the moft north-eafterly point of the ifland to Ifamnum.Promontorium or the point of Ardglas haven in the county of Down % and having the Logia or Carrickfergus Bay within their pofleffions and Dunum or Down-Patrick for their capital. The Voluntii- poflefled the coaft from the point of Ardglafs haven to the river Buvinda or Boyne, the remainder of Down, the breadth of Ardmagh, and all Louth, having the river Viuderus or Carlingford river in their dominions, and the town Laberus near the river Deva, Atherdee in the county of Louth, for their metropolis The Eblani reached from the Boyne to the Lsebius, Laev-ui, or Liffy, refiding in Eafi-Meath, and in the large portion of Dublin county which is to the north 2 Of