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Richard, by Divitiacus or some other Roman general. 'oi- These, 

 unitino- Avith the former, constituted a central nation, which was 

 bounded on the N. by the mountains of Tyrone ; on the S, by the 

 Suire and Blackwater ; on the E. by the Barrow, Boyne, and 

 Loch Neagh ; and on the W. by the Shamion, Loch AUin, and 

 Loch Erne."^'-- Part of the centre being hitherto unoccupied, mu- 

 tual protection and identity of family required this coalition. '°^- 



These were followed, according to our autlior, by two tribes, 

 the Daninii and Rhobogdii, from the S. W. of the present Scot- 

 land : the former, as he supposes, from Valentia, or that part of 

 Britain included between the wall of Anlonine and that of Ha- 

 drian. They were called Daniii or Darini by Ptolemy, and by 

 Irish writers Tuath Dea Danaan, a denomination derived proba- 

 bly from the river Dee. 



O'Flaherty brings them, on doubtful authority, from Bceotia and 

 Athens to Scandinavia ; and says they had, at two distinct periods, 

 been inhabitants of Ireland. Tliat, on their return from Scandina\ ia, 

 where they occupied towns called Falia, Goria, Finnia, and Mu- 

 ria, Cwhose existence was, I believe, in romance only,) they dwel- 

 led for some time near the river Dea or Dee, and occupied two 

 towns in the vicinity of that river, called Dobar and Irdobar, 

 whence they arrived and settled in the N. of Ireland.'°^- Mr. 

 Whitacre calls them a British tribe ; and, with better judgment, 

 supposes them, on their return from Ireland, to have settled on the 



IPl. Whit, p, 233 ' Certissimura est Damrios, Voluntios, Brigantes, Cangos, aliasque 



nationes, origine fuisse Britannica, quae eo postea [post Scotos] trajecerunt, — postquam Divi- 

 tiacus — vel duces alii victores illis domi turaultum fecerant.' Richard, p. 4-2. 



102. Whit. p. 232. 



103. ' In Hiberniam comiaigrarunt ejecti a Belgis Britones, ibique sedes posuerunt, ex 

 illo tempore Scotti appcllati ' Kich, p. SO. 



104. Ogyg. p. 6, 174. 



