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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 131
The name remains to this day in irs prefent appel-
lation of the SOLWAY Frith, as the antient
name of Conovius continues in that of rhe Conway
at prefent. And the tribe, that inha-
bited along the whole extended line of the
jeftuary, was naturally denominated Fir-Elgovse
or Fir-Selgov£B, Men, or the Men, of the Great
Water. — Gadeni is alfo interpreted Robbers,
and to be the fame word with the Iriili Gadechin,
Robbers. The real word in Irifh, I believe, is
not Gadechin, but Gaduighe a thief, and Gaduighen
Thieves. And Gadeni plainly comes
from Gadh or Cath a Fight, as Crutheni is de-
rived from Cruth ; and, like Camulo-genus, the
name of a Gallic Hero in Cdehv ', fignifics the
Men of the Battle, or the Warriours. And the
Gadeni are therefore denominated Gadeni, in
a Roman-Britilh infcription difcovered in the
North *.—Nor were the Gadeni bounded merely
by the northern bank of the Tweed, or the
Ottadini by the fouthern, as Mr. Macpherfon
places them. The Gadeni ranged from the
Wall to the North of Lanerk. And the Otta-
dini, whom he fuppofes to lie all to the South
of the Tweed, extended beyond it to the
Friths 5. His great divifion of the North to
Loffie and Spey, feems to have been called Inis, an ifland,
having the two villages of Innes and Ince in it.
* Caefar, p. 164. * Horfeley, N° 80. Northumbeiland.
^ Hiftory of Manchefter, p. 63.
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