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goo THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

bus Britannicis '- And here we fee <strong>the</strong> Scpt^<br />

Usually landing in <strong>the</strong> fou<strong>the</strong>rn divifion <strong>of</strong> Britain,<br />

a6lually making conquefts in North and<br />

South Wales, and aftually repelled from both<br />

with great flaughter.<br />

Nor were <strong>the</strong>y only beaten from <strong>the</strong> land.<br />

A fleet was " fitted oyt to deftroy <strong>the</strong>m at<br />

*' fea.'* This appears plainly from a paflage <strong>of</strong><br />

Claudian, which <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon himfelf has<br />

quoted in a Note to p. 112— 113. It is <strong>the</strong>re<br />

laid <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>od<strong>of</strong>iu? <strong>the</strong> El,der, that<br />

Scottum—-vago mucrone fecutus,<br />

Fregit Hyperboreas remis audacibus undas.<br />

And here <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon himfelf acknowledgesj<br />

that <strong>The</strong>od<strong>of</strong>ms " purfues <strong>the</strong> Scots fword in<br />

** hand into <strong>the</strong> Hyperborean Ocean." A navy<br />

was fitted out by <strong>The</strong>od<strong>of</strong>ius to deftroy <strong>the</strong> fleet <strong>of</strong><br />

Iriih and Saxon veflels, which chaced <strong>the</strong> former<br />

into <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn Ocean, oWiged <strong>the</strong>m to retire<br />

into <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn ports <strong>of</strong> Ireland, and <strong>the</strong>n<br />

attacked and deftroyed <strong>the</strong> 1 itter at <strong>the</strong> Ork-<br />

neys >. And <strong>the</strong> fea to <strong>the</strong> North <strong>of</strong>" Ireland 1$<br />

exprefsly denominated <strong>the</strong> Hyperborean Ocean<br />

by Ptolemy.<br />

C. 8.<br />

* See Latinus and Claudian before.<br />

Ml.

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