The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

THE BRITONS ASSERTED, ici
Breiz, and Brezonnec, for an individual, the
country, and the language, of Armorica ;
in the
Wellh Brython and Brythoneg, the Britons
?.nd their language ; and in the antient fyno-
paraous appellations of Brigantes and Britanni.
Thefe i 'have' previoufly Ihewn to be fynoni-
inous, by oenonflrating the Britons ail over the
:Q3v,d '.•' '\:.ve i^en, equally with thofe of York-
• icanni.
biirham, denominated Brigantes as
'And in the Hidory of Man-
.- i have fhewn the Brigantes of thofe two
^ ^s, to have been peculiarly denominated
yy'::.2m ailb '.
Tiie national appellation of Brit therefore
imports, not the infular nature of Albion, by
which it was feparated from all the world, but
merely its disjunction from Gaul- The lormer
could not be known for ages after the name
mufl have been inipofed. And the latter was
an obvious and ftriking particularity. The
Gael or Wealas of the continent paiTing over
into Albion, they woiild naturally be denomi-
nated, as they are a&ially and repeatedly denomi-
nated in the Saxon Chronicle, the -Bryt-Weaias
or Bryttas '•. But how Hiall we lengthen Brit
into Britanni and Britones ? We cannot with
^ P. io. ^ See p. 2. arxd i8, &c. And the len, which
they pafled over into this llland, appears upon the fame
pruiciple to have been called by the Britons, for ages atter-
ward, Muir 161, or the Great Separation. See Uiher, p. 429.
Edit. 1687.
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