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Damnii, Voluntii, Brigantes, and Cangi, were all nations of British 

 origin, who, when they could not enjoy peace at home from the neigh- 

 bourhood of hostility, or when such tributes were exacted from them 

 as they found themselves unequal to discharge, gradually passed over 

 into this land to make new settlements."* The remainder of Ireland, 

 he premises, was occupied by the Scots, "in compliment to whom," he 

 adds, "the whole island takes the name of Scotia. "+ Innes would have 

 it, that;]: at this period the Gallicians too, under similar visitations 

 and sufferings from the Romans in the Cantabrian war, sought the 

 same shelter in Ireland; while Camden, even more than all extends 

 the promiscuous hospitality of the land. " When the Romans had 

 extended their dominions on every side, many, without doubt, from 

 Spain, Gaul, and Britain, betook themselves to Ireland, as a release 

 from the most iniquitous slavery. "§ In conformity wherewith we find 

 similar affinities in the maps of Cellarius and Ptolemy ; the Lucenses, 

 Concani,|| and Autrigones, in the Spain of the former geographer, 

 being met by the Luceni, Concani, and Auteri, in the Ireland of the 

 latter, and the Nannetes in Gaul — by the Nagnatee of Ireland. What 

 a proud distinction for a country ! What a generous pre-eminence 



* "Non possum non in hoc loco monere.Damnios Voluntios Brigantes et Cangianos omnes 

 fuisse Britannia; originis nationes, quae, cum vel ab hoste finitimo non daretur quies, vel tot 

 tantaque exigerentur tributa, quibus solvendis se impares intelligerent, sensim novas quaesiturae 

 sedes in banc terram trajecerunt." — De Sit. Britt. p. 45. 



f " Reliquam insulae partem Scotti habebant, quibus Scotise nomen tola exinde debet." 



J Critical Essay, vol. 2. p. 543. 

 "if.: § " Cum sunm Romani imperium undique propagassent, multi proculdubio ex Hispania, 

 Gallia et Britannia hue (ad Hiberniam) se receperunt, ut iniquissimo jugo coUa subducerent." 

 — Camden's Hibernia. Yet this great British antiquarian looked on Ireland with more than 

 a " mental squint," according to the ancient epigram, 



" Perlustras Anglos oculis, Camdene, duobus, 

 Uno oculo Scottos, coecus Hibernigenas." 



II The Concani are mentioned as a Spanish people by Mela, lib. 3. c. 1. 



