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i8o THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

Irifli could certainly remigrate in <strong>the</strong>m as well to<br />

<strong>the</strong> coafl: <strong>of</strong> Caledonia, and even in numbers<br />

fufficient to occupy <strong>the</strong> weflern Highlands and<br />

ifles. In his own Offian alfo, as I have already<br />

obferved in <strong>the</strong> Hiftory <strong>of</strong> Manchefter % we fee<br />

little armies continually tranfported in <strong>the</strong>fe vef-^<br />

fels from Caledonia to Ireland and from Ireland<br />

to Caledonia. And, as <strong>the</strong> firft colonics <strong>of</strong> Bri-<br />

tain mufl necelTarily have wafted over <strong>the</strong> intermediate<br />

channels in curraghs, fo in Gildas wc<br />

fee <strong>the</strong> Pifts and Scots <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fifth century<br />

haflily cr<strong>of</strong>ling with <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> Friths <strong>of</strong> Forth<br />

and Clyde -. We find <strong>the</strong> <strong>Britons</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firft<br />

cxprefsly declared by Lucan, to have navigated<br />

<strong>the</strong> feas about <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong>ir curraghs =. Suc-<br />

cours were fent in <strong>the</strong>m from South-Britain<br />

Into Gaul, in <strong>the</strong> days <strong>of</strong> Ccefar 4. And a<br />

great army was tranfported In <strong>the</strong>m even by<br />

Coefar himfelf, acr<strong>of</strong>s <strong>the</strong> very rapid current <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Sicoris in Spain s. <strong>The</strong>fe fa£ls equally de-<br />

* F. 581.<br />

* Hift. c. XV. Emergiint eertatim de Curicis, quibus funt<br />

trans TIthicain virllem vecti.<br />

3 Sic Venetus rtujjjnante Pado, fufoqiie Brirannus Oceano.<br />

And Pliny fays thus in 1. iv. c. 16. Tim^us hirtoricus a Bri-<br />

tannia iiitrorfus fex dierum navigatione abefle dicit infulam<br />

Bliftim— , ad earn Biitannos vitilibus navigiis corlo circunifu-<br />

tis navigare.<br />

* Cajfar, p. 73, Omnibus fere Galllcls bellis, h<strong>of</strong>tibus uoilris<br />

iade fubminiftiata auxilia intelligebat.<br />

5 MiUtes his navlbus flumea tranfportat, Cjefar, p. 240.<br />

moallrate

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