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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 213<br />

opinions and rradiiionary hiftory. But <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

migration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scots he fpeaks peremptorily<br />

and p<strong>of</strong>itively, as peremptorily as he does <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Roman invahon <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> iiland, and as p<strong>of</strong>i-<br />

tively as <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Saxon fettlement upon it. In pri-<br />

mis — h^EC infula Britones folum — incoLis ha-<br />

buit, qui de traftu Armoricano, ut fcrtw\ Britan-<br />

niam advefli. — Contigit gentem Piftorum de<br />

Scythia, ut perhihcnt^ — Oceanum ingrelTam, &c.<br />

Procedente autem tempore Britannia, p<strong>of</strong>l Brit-<br />

tones & Pi6los, tertiam Scottorum nationem in<br />

Pi£torum parte recepit, qui, duce Reuda de Hi-<br />

bernia progreffi, vel ainicitia vel ferro fibimet<br />

inter cos fcdes, quas hafienus habent vindicarunt—<br />

. Hibernia propria patria Scottoaim eft :<br />

ab hac egreffi, ut diximus, tertiam in Britannia<br />

Brittonibus et Piflis s-entem addiderunt '.<br />

P. 122—123. " Where we have an oppor-<br />

*' tunitv to examine Bede's account by <strong>the</strong><br />

" criterion <strong>of</strong> collateral hiflory, we find that he<br />

'' has committed a very elTential miflake. <strong>The</strong><br />

** Sou<strong>the</strong>rn <strong>Britons</strong> were fo far from deriving<br />

*' <strong>the</strong>ir blood from <strong>the</strong> inhabitants <strong>of</strong> Armorica,<br />

" that, on <strong>the</strong> contrary, <strong>the</strong> Armoricans had<br />

" tranfmigrated fi-om Britain not many ages be-<br />

^L. i.e. I.<br />

P - "fore

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