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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 123<br />

dons <strong>of</strong> Fir-Galat, Fir-Gait, Fir-Gaeld, and Fir-<br />

Celt muft have fignified merely <strong>the</strong> Man <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Wood. But, in two national denominations <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> very fame origin, <strong>the</strong> termination is a little<br />

different, becaufe <strong>the</strong> words are in <strong>the</strong> plural<br />

number, or (land as <strong>the</strong> relative adjeftive. Ke-<br />

1yd or Caled leng<strong>the</strong>ns into Kelyd-onor Caled-on,<br />

Woods ; and Gallt or Gaeld is formed into<br />

Gallt-ach or Gaeld-och, Woodland-ifh. Thus<br />

Caledon became <strong>the</strong> antient appellation for all<br />

<strong>the</strong> extenfive Foreds <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Ga<strong>the</strong>li and Galli in<br />

<strong>the</strong> provinces <strong>of</strong> Britain ; from <strong>the</strong> Forefl: <strong>of</strong> An-<br />

derida in Kent, SuiTex, and feveral o<strong>the</strong>r conn-<br />

ties, into which, under <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caledo-<br />

nian Woods, Florus fays that Ctefar purfued <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>Britons</strong> ; to <strong>the</strong>Foreft <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Coritani in Lincoln-<br />

fhire and fome adjoining provinces, to which,<br />

under <strong>the</strong> fome denomination <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caledonian<br />

Wood, Pliny fays that <strong>the</strong> Roman arms had been<br />

carried in his time ; and to <strong>the</strong> well-known Cale-<br />

donian Foreft <strong>of</strong> Scotland '. Thus Fir-Caledon,<br />

or Caledones, and <strong>the</strong> equivalent Gaeld-och, bepame<br />

equally <strong>the</strong> antient and prefent appellations<br />

for <strong>the</strong> Ga<strong>the</strong>l and Gael <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Highlands. And<br />

Caledonius became occafionally among <strong>the</strong> Ro-<br />

pians a denomination equivalent to Britannicus,<br />

and was applied equally with it to all <strong>the</strong> Ga<strong>the</strong>l<br />

* Florus, L. ill. c. 10. Caledonias fecutus in filvas ; Pliny,<br />

J^.iv. c. 16; and Hiftory <strong>of</strong>Mancheiter, p. 413', and 557.<br />

and

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