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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
a fortrefs ; and the town, that was deflined
to be afterwards the imperial feat of Britain,
they called by the local title of Lon-din or the
Water-town, and by the national appellation of
Tre-Novantum or the fortrefs of the Novantes '.
And, as they fpread afterwards from London
over all Middieiex and Effex, they carried the
name of their oripinal city with them, and their
appellation of Novantes was -lengthened into
Trinovantes.
Dobuni, formed of Dcbh-buini, and inter-
preted the refidents on a river, means, I think,
as it has always been rendered, the men of the
valley. They are therefore called Dubni and
Duni in the varying denomination of Cogi-
Dubniis and Cogi-Dunus % Dumni in the ap-
pellation of Togi-Dumnus, and exprefsly Eoduni
in Dio. All thefe terms equally fignify the
Lowlanders, And the concurrence of all in
one meaning dccifively fixes it.—And Ordovi-
ces, here analyfed into Ord-tuavich, and tranP
lated Northern Mountaineers, I have Ihewn, I
think, to be Ordo-Uices or Ordo-Vices, the Ho-
nourable Vices or Great Huiccii s ; as in the fifth
century we have a Britiih hero popularly de-
* Hlllory of Manchefter, p. 412 and 415.
^ Chichefter Infcription, and Tacitus,
? Hiftory of Mauchcfter, p. 148.
nominated