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before the liost, from the land of the 
elements of which our great fathers were 
formed. 
And Daire was'he who conducted the 
children of the land to this side A ffreidg- 
eis—and the rate of Daire were chiefs 
of the earth, 
Attend again, my Son,—When twice 
nine hundred rings, and thrice’ three 
rings were marked’ on the banks of 
Affreidg-cis,'a multitude from the sun’s 
rising, beneath the land of the first abode 
of our great fathers, poured in upon the 
Tand of our fathers that then lived, like 
unto a swarm of locusts, or clouds of 
burning sands, yea even as a torrent of 
mighty waters, that overwhelmeth all 
things. 
~ And the multitudes for numbers not 
to be counted, as the sands of the sea, 
as the stars of the heavens,—speaking 
with a thousand tongues diverse. one 
from another—fierce and cruel, came 
over our fathers. 
And many of the Gaal were made 
captives—and many lay in death, whose 
state was happier than that of his fellow. 
And Ard-fear, chief of the race, and all 
the lieads of the people who stood in the 
presence of the chief, dwelling round 
xbout the tents of Ard-fear, escaped 
from the edge of the sword of Eis Soir. 
And Ard-fear floated on the bosom of 
Blessed A ffreidg-cis, and the waters bare 
up his little skiff, till he lighted on the 
plain of Ard-mionu. 
And all that went forth from Magh- 
sean-ar dwelled in Ard-mionu, and Ard- 
fear ruled that land as aforetime—but in 
person. 
And the foemen of the east sheathed 
not the sword for one entire ring; and 
wlien ohe ring was complete there was 
peace. 
And Bis Soir made theecarth to groan 
for the weight which they laid on the 
places where theretofore had stood the 
tents of Ard-fear, and the heads of the 
Gaal. 
Did they not raise up dwellings dura- 
ble, and walls round about, and’a watch 
tower to Took over the Jand on every 
side? 
And multitudes of the Gaal flocked to 
the tents of Ard-fear in Ard-mionu, and 
they encreased exceedingly. 
And when Ard-fear had ruled for the 
course of one score and eleven rings in 
Ard mionu, then and there he died. 
And all the children of the land afore- 
time, and of the Gaal, gathered them- 
selves together, and they placed the bulk 
of Ard-fear in the boat, in which he was 
O’Connor’s Chronicles of Eri. 
borne from, Magh-sean-ar even unto 
Ard-mionw on the eterhiik the Blessed 
Affreidg-eis, 
And they set the Bon on the spot 
where it had'rested, when Ard-fear came 
therefrom unto the ‘lana, ibikds 
And they raised the boat charged. with 
the weight of the chief from the water, 
and it was conveyed on the shoulders of 
the nobles for the space of nine hundred 
paces, from the margin of the water; to- 
wards the sun’s going. 
And there was the boatin which Jay 
the form of Ard-fear set down, and there 
was his heap ‘raised—a memorial for 
ever. 
And all the people moaned. inwardly, 
and they pourcd forth lamentations loud- 
ly, invoking the spirit of Ard=fear, eal- 
ling him Naoi, the chosen of. Baal, for 
the preservation of the race-of Absaland 
the Gaal-Nasi, whom the streams) .of 
Blessed Afiveidg-cis did our in natty 
to Ard-mionu. 
CHAP. Vik—=BOLUSe) yp" 
Now Dalta, the first. born of; eee, 
was not chosen, Eolus was placed onithe 
seat of his father. 
And Eolus, before he was’ eliosess, 
whilst his father yet lived, had journeyed 
to Ib-er of our fathers, and to: the Jand.of 
Aoimag, to get knowledge; and his wish 
was to go cven unto Mag-sean-ar, the 
abode of our great fathers, but, the; diffe 
culties were greater than his desire, 
And Eolus tarricd one entirering, and 
one Ratha in Sgadan, where be. hath 
learned to set down all his thoughts in 
shapes and figures, for the eye of man, 
Tam that Eolus, the son of Enar, the 
son of Airt, of the race of Calma, from 
Ard-fear, who write down. these words, 
for the instruction of those that now be, 
and of those who are yet to come. 
To teach man to rule himself, that his 
reason may keep his passions in subjee- 
tion continually, to tell to the chiefs; and 
the heads of the Gaal, and to the Gaal 
of their race, the renowned of the.earth, 
And these words have I written, as 
they have been repeated: from mouth, to 
ear, from generation to.generation, and 
these times have J noted from the marks 
of the rings of Baal, and these words are 
true, according to the traditions of man 
as believed; but more correct are the 
times, being according to the revolutions 
of Baal, which cannot err, 
But J, Eolus, have not set down the 
words said by the Priests, to have been 
delivered ‘to the nine Priests by Baal, 
from the beginning, because my under- 
standing cannotgive entertainment there- 
unto; 
