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liiosc, il is very pvol)able, that they had also forsaken their terri- 

 tories. Tlie remains of the whole thus uniting in the general emi- 

 g^ation, the Curiosolitse or Osismii might have separately joined 

 some of the rest ; and assumed the tiame of one of the more distin- 

 giiished tribes, or changed the former name to Auteri, whom Ptolemy 

 places S. of the Nagnata-. 



Tlic coincidence of circumstances connected with those people 

 appears on recapitulation vei7 striking. Firstly, the causes and 

 time of emiffration. 2. The maritime situations chosen as the 

 fittest for piscatory or trading people. 3. The agreement of deno- 

 minations. 4. The identity of nation or tribes. 5. The circum- 

 stance of three neighbouring tribes in Gaul becoming neighbours 

 in Ireland. 6. The subsequent occupation of their territories in 

 Gaul by the British. 7. The failure of Mr. Whitacre in ac- 

 counting for those particular tribes, notwithstanding his seven 

 years application to the subject of British antiquity. 8. Their city 

 Nagnata, to which Ptolemy applies the epithet eTi(rr,fMi or illus- 

 trious, excelling, as we should expect, among a commercial and 

 intelligent people, all the rest in Ireland. 9. And, if Mr. Pinker- 

 ton's assertion be partly true,"^- these are the only tribes, except the 

 Belga", and perhaps the Menapii, which embarked directly from 

 GavU for Ireland, f 



119 Vol. 1. p 213. ' The original population of Ireland passed from Gaul, and was af- 

 terwards increased by their brethren the Guydil from England.' 



m It appears more likely, that the Gaoilach or Watling-street, which Mr. Whitacre says 

 was made 50 or 60 years after the settlement of those Mediolanenses, had been intended to 

 facilitate traffic with those Gallic colonies than with his transplanted Ordovices of Ireland ; as 

 they had previously in Gaul kept up a commercial intercourse with the Brilons. Mr. Whitacre, 

 as if to suit the direction of the road to his theory, has carried it from Richborough in Ken 



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