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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
plainly relates to none of them. Du or Deii
fignifies Water, as in Du-bana, the river Bail
in Ireland, and in Deu-draeth^ or the Seabeach,
the name of ieveral places in Wales ^
And the nations of wefterh Caledonia were de-
nominated Deu-caledon or the Maritime Cale-
donians, as the wefterly tribes of Gaiil were
named Aremorici or the Gauls of the fhore ; as
a fmgle maritime people in Gaul and Britain
was called Morini and Durotriges, ihe people of
the Sea, or the inhabitants on the Water ; and
as the Highlanders that live in a line along the
flaore of Scotland, in Rofs, Sutherland, and Cath-
nefs, are fometimes denominated by their inte-
rior brethren An-Dua-Ghael, or the Water-
Britons, to the prefent moment ^
From this account it is plain, that the paflage
in Ammlanus has been hitherto mifunderdiood
by the criticks. He means not by it, that the
great fociety of the Pifls Was divided into Di-
caledones and Vefturiones. The latter werei
only a fmgle tribe on the Eafti And the
former comprehended only a few tribes on the
Weft. All the other nations in the Eaft, the
North, and the South of .Caledonia, according
to this interpretation, ate thrown out of the
number of the Pifts, and ranked as different and
* Hiftory of Manchellcr, p. 423*
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diftin(n;