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 4io THE HISTORY Book I. nii ; and their towns are therefore afcribed to the Dam- nii by Ptolemy. But, after that coming and the ere&ion of the forts or the wall,. the Horeftii were entirely feparated from the Damnii, became a part of the new province V^fpafiana, and were fubje&ed to the new capital Victoria. The Vefturones re- fided in the reft of Perth, in all Ga wry, Angus, and Merns, and in the narrow region of Mar which is to the fbuth of the Dee ; having the towns or ftations Orrea, Ad Hiernam, Ad Tavum, Ad Eficam, and Ad Tinam 3, and acknowledging the firft of them for their capital. The Taixali lived beyond the Dee, in the reft of Mar and in Buchan, owning Devana or Old Aberdeen in the former for their metropolis, and giving their own name to Buchan Nefs orKinnaird's Head upon the margin of their fhore. Adjoining to thefe on the Weft along the retreating line of the coaft, and feparated from them by an arm of the Gram- pian hills about the North-weftern limits of Buchan, the Vaco- rnagi pofleffed the regions of BamfF, Murray, Invernefs to the town of Invernefs, nearly the whole of Badenock and Argyle, and the fmall part of Broadalbin that lies to the North of the Tay ; having the towns of Tueffis, Rothes upon the Spey in Murray, Banatia or Bane-caftle, Varis, Far upon Nairne river, and Ptorotone or Invernefs, in the diftrift of Invernefs, Ad Tueffim or Ruthvan upon the Spey in Badenock, and Tamea or Brumchefter in Athol To the South of the Vacomagi were the Damnii Albanf, a tribe totally omitted by Ptolemy and' there- fore certainly fubje&ed to another, a tribe actually fubje&ed to their neighbours the Damnii, receiving the former half of their appellation from their conquerors and the latter from the Alben or heights among which they were fituated, and confidered as confiding of two gentes or tribes, which inhabited the fmall part of Athol and Broadalbin that is. to the fouth of the Tay, and the remainder of Strathem and Menteith 5. And, to the South of thefe, the Attacotti refided in Lenox % extending only along the fide of the Cluyd and a part of the Roman Vallum, and hav-. ing Al-cluith or Balclutha the town upon the Cluid, Dun-Bri- ton or Dun-Barton, the town of the Britons, for their capital. Such were the once fiibjetted Britons of the North, formed into the