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opposite coast of Galloway, under the denomination of Novantes. 



lie time of Ptolemy, some of this tribe occupied parts of the 

 present shires of Peeble, Lanerk, Dunbarton, and Ayr, whence 

 the firth of Clyde presented a short passage to the N. E. coast of 

 Ireland. They passed over, perhaps, when subdued by Lollius, 

 and took possession of parts of the counties Antrim and Downe ; 

 having-, according to Ptolemy, the Argita flumen, or Loch Suile, 

 within their West boundary ; but, according to Richard, only the 

 Logia, or Loch Feabhail, (Loch Foyle,) and this author gives 

 them Dunum, Dun, or Down Patrick, for their capital. 



The commentators on Camden seem to extend the territory of 

 this tribe too far to the W., when they suppose it to have occu- 

 pied the district called Cineal Eoghain, and more anciently Dair 

 Calgaic, whence they fancy this tribe had been denominated.'°^- 



Of the Rhobogdii ^'^^- Mr. Whitacre gives us no further information; 

 merely presuming, that, as all Ireland, as he supposed, had been 

 colonized from Britain, this people must have been included. Ac- 

 cording to Camden, they occupied parts of the counties Antrim 

 and Dun na Ngall or Donnegal, whose N. division was called 

 after the inhabitants, Jar-Gall, or the western Gauls :'07- to these 

 Whitacre adds all Derry.'^^- The promontory called by Ptolemy 

 Rhobogdium, and which Sir James Ware rightly supposed to be 

 that of Inis Eoghain from the situation which Ptolemy has assign- 



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105. Camd Brit. v. 4, addenda, p. 437. 



106. The situation of this tribe in Gaul and Ireland favours the definition by Baxter : Vete- 



rum Brigantum (Jialectis re, ri, et »o, proniiscue dicuntur pro rac \el rhag, prce ; est etiam 

 Hog diii, fluctus aquae ■, ut sit Rubngdmrn tanquam Prie maris Jliirtii. 



107. Idem, p. 445. 108. Hist, of Mane. v. 2. p. 232. 



