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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
as Ro'ite in Englifh, and fignifying in an ho.
nourable acceptation a tribe of people ;
a name,
v.ith the greateft propriety applicable to that
divilion of Antrim which is denominated Route,
to the Dal-reud-ini of Scotland, and to the Dal-
reth of Ireland, and importing the tribe and the
country of it. — Nor can Rachlyn or Rachrin
fignify the Ram's promontory. A Ram is in
Irilh, not Rach, but Reaith ; and Mr. Mac-
pherfon has already deduced Route and Reaidhe
from it. And the other word is not Ryn only,
but equally Lyn, Rachlyn vel Rachrin. This is
not a promontory, but an ifland, infula Racl;-
lyn vel Rachrin, and is aftually an ifland, and
a^ually denominated Rachlin, at prefent. The
name clearly terminating in the word In an ifland,
it feems to begin with the Irilh word Rak-ol, and
to import the Royal ifland. And hence it is denominated
Ric-in-a, Reich-in, or King-ifland, by
Ptolemy '.
P. 127,
^ Mr. Macplierfon alfo obje»^s in p. 1:6, That " accord-
*' ing to tlie genius of the Iriili language" Dal-riada, if called
from Calrbie-Riada, muft have been, not Dal-Riada, but
Dal-Cairbrc, becaufe Riada is only a pollerior and feconda,ry
name. But we have feveral inftances to the contrary in the
Irifli hiftory, which, however fpurious as fddi, are certainly
a'^reeable to the genius of the Irifh language, as Dal-arardhe in
Down and Antrim from Fiacha-^raidhe, king of UUler to-
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