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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. £99
fyftem to have been. They generally invaded
the Province from their fettlement in Argyle,
and were accompanied by the Pi£^s. But they
twice made an invafion of it direftly from Ire-
land. And this is a full anfwcr to this feries
of Queftions, why the Scots of Ireland did not
land in fome of the countries to the South of the
Walls. They did. In the days of Stilicho parti-
cularly, leaving "the country between the Walls"
to be ravaged by their brethren of Argyle and
the Pi£ls, they made a defcent on the provinces
that were inaccefhble to them, landed in both
** of the divifions of Wales," and now for the
firft time poffelTed themfelves of " the ifle of
*' Man." This is related to us by Nennius ia
thefe two paflages. Mailcunius magnus Rex
apud Britones regebat. Id eft, in regione Guea-
edotise, quia atavus illius Cunedag cum filiis
fuis—Scotos cum ingentiffima clade expulerat ab
iftis regionibus, et nunquam reverfi fuerunt iterura
ab habitandnm \—Builc autcm tenuit Euboniam
i-nfulam cum fuis [the ifle of Man, fee c. 2.] ;
filii autem Vethan obtinuerunt regionera Dimectorum,
ubi civitas eft quje vocatur Mineu [Me-
nevia or St. David's] ; et in aliis regionibus fe
dilataverunt, i. e. Guiher Get Guely [to Caer
Kidwelly in Caermarthenlhire], donee expulfi
funjL a Cuneda Sz a filiis ejus ab omnibus regioni-
' C. 64.
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