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

aQO THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
the Scots of thefe three tribes, who poffeffed all
the North and North-Weft of the ifland, from
Fair Head to Balylhannon, were all original Ca-
ledonians ^—They alfo who affirmed, and they
who denied, the Caledonian defcent of the Bri-
ti(h Scots, affirmed what they could not prove,
but what was yet a truth, and denied what all
hiftory denied, and what was yet no falfehood.
The Scots, that came from Ireland under Fergus,
were brought from the country of the Caledo-
nian Robogdli, from the diftrift in the North-
weitern parts of Antrim, which was formerly de-
nominated Dalrieta and is now named R-Oute ; and
were therefore called Dalreudini in the days of
Bede, and their country Dalrieta to the nth
century *. And the Scots, who have given their
own denomination to all Caledonia and all Valen-
tia, were Caledonians that had migrated into Ire-
land, and that re-migrated into Caledonia after-
wards.—Laftly ; the Irifh and Englifli, who af-
firmed the derivation of the Britifli Scots from
Ireland, and referred, as they both conflantly
referred, the arrival of thefe Scots to the com-
mencement of the 6th century, affirmed an indu-
Hiflory of Manchefter, p. 434, 442, and 443—444.
* Bede, 1. i. c. i, Ufher, p. 320, and Camden, p. 769.
And the annals of Tigernach, one of the oldefl hiftories that
the Irifh have, aflert the Scots of Caledonia to have been de-
rived from Dalrieta in Ireland : Ulher, p. 32 1.
bitabl*