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Chap, XII. OF MANCHESTER.. 437 flnre muft hare fent a colony of her children to plant the eaftern fhore of Ireland* 3 . And the Coriondii (I apprehend) were equally derived from the Carnabii of Chefhire, the name being written either Carnabii, Corinavii, or Corion-dii, and the laft appellation being exactly the fame with the firft, and only Diu being fubftituted for Ab or Av m *. Thus far the Britons had lived unmixed with the Belgx in Ireland, now confifted of fcven tribes, and now poffefled all the northern eaftern and central parts of the ifland. And thus in- habited only by the genuine Britons, the ifland naturally received an appellation additional to its original name. This was not, like that, deduced merely from its pofition with refpeA to Britain, but was borrowed from the one common denomination of its pofleflbrs. This was the appellation of Inis-Fael or Inis-Fallin * 5 , the ifland of the Fael, Faell-in, or Gauls, The F, V> and Win the Celtic language are equivalent letters *% and Fael, Vael, and Wall all equally exprefs the one denomination of the Britons r Thus among the Britons of Wales we have Cad-Fael-Hydr ox Cad^Wal-adr, Hy-Fael or Ho-Wel, and Di-ofna-Faei or Dyfh- Wall % And the denomination of the Britons among their own tribes and in all the. neighbouring nations was popularly Gall or Wall. Hence the Saxon Chronicle mentions frequently the troops under Hengift and under ./Ella, loon after the commence* ment of the war with the Britons, to have routed the Wealas r Wylifhe, or Welch in Kent and in Spflex,", And hence the Britons of the Highlands denominate themfelves the Caelic or Gallic, and the Britons of Ireland entitle themfelves the Eirin^ ach or Irifh Caelic, even to the prefent period- This ap- pellation, which extended over all our iflands and over a con* fiderable portion of the continent, has been frequently explained by the critics both at home and abroad, but ftill lies hid in its own original obfcurity. The genuine import of the word how- ever feeems pretty obvious to an attentive mind. And I fhaU endeavour to throw a ftronger light upon is* The Irifh and the Highlanders, as I have already remarked,, reciprocally deno- minate-