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THE 5RIT0NS ASSERTED. sjj<br />

p, 127—128. "Uflier has afcertained <strong>the</strong><br />

*^ bounds <strong>of</strong> Dalriada, or <strong>the</strong> Route in Antrhn,<br />

' and found its whole extent about thirty miles.<br />

^' Were it even certain that Palriada produced<br />

*' more men than any diftrift <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fame extent<br />

•* in antient Ireland, ftill it is incredible, that an<br />

'' army could be muftered <strong>the</strong>re fufficient to fub-<br />

*' due <strong>the</strong> principality <strong>of</strong> lar-ghael [Argyle.J"<br />

All <strong>the</strong> arguments that are founded on a fupp<strong>of</strong>ition,<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scotch fettling in Caledonia by<br />

violence, have been already (hewn to be befide<br />

<strong>the</strong> mark. No one, I think, has ever infifted upon<br />

<strong>the</strong> fettlement being originally effe^led by force.<br />

And <strong>the</strong> amicable concurrence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caledonian<br />

Scots v^ith <strong>the</strong> Pi£ls in expeditions into <strong>the</strong> Roman<br />

province, within a few years only after<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir iirft eflablilhment in Britain, is a full and<br />

convincing pro<strong>of</strong>, as I have already remarked,<br />

that <strong>the</strong> one fixed <strong>the</strong>mfelves in <strong>the</strong> country with<br />

|:he entire confent <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

wards <strong>the</strong> middle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> third century, and as Dal-Cais from<br />

Cormaf-CaJs, king <strong>of</strong> IN^unfter and Leinfter In <strong>the</strong> fame cen-<br />

tury.— Rachryn feems to be equally <strong>the</strong> true name with<br />

Rachlyn, as <strong>the</strong> iflet is called Rechru and Rachrea in Adam-<br />

pan's Life <strong>of</strong> Columba (L. i. c. 5. p. 340, and L. ii. c. 41.<br />

p. 361, Colgan's AdaSandlorumHiberniae, vol. ii.). And this<br />

js Reich-er-yj or Rach-er-ea, <strong>the</strong> Kingman's ifland, literally.<br />

Tac

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