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 4i4 ' .THE HISTORY Book J. ifland." This the firft introdu&ion of a miitf from the Roman continent by Cunobeline, though as the king of the Caflii he was with relation to them only an inland monarch 3X ; this the intimate .acquaintance of the Romans with his name and capital, though he lay at a diftance from the fouthern coafts 33 ; and this the ap- pellation of Cunobeline, Cuno Bel in fignifying the Head Kiug ; all concur to render highly probable with relpeft to the former. And Caractacus, the Charatic of Dio and the Caradoc of the Triades, was undoubtedly the Pendragon of the Britons, as is equally implied in the name Cara-tac, Cara-tog, or Head King 3+, -as is exprefsly afferted by Tacitus, and as is demonftrated by the. whole tenour of his hiftory 35 . Thus alfb, as I fhall afterward? fliew, the fame office was lineally hereditary among the Britons -of Caledonia and among the Britons and the Belgse of Ire^ land 36 * Among the Caledonian Britons the dignity muft have been firft inftituted upon the advance of the firft common ene r my which had hitherto attacked them, the Romans under Agri r cola. Then, wifely providing againft the general danger by a general union, all the unconquered tribes of the ifland folemnly •confederated together, and put themfelves under the authority -of Galgacus 3 This was the monarch of one of their tribes, iiiperior to the reft in defcent and valour 38, and perhaps, as Pendragon, denominated Gal-gac, Gal-cog, or the king of the .Gauls. In the family of Galgacus the Pendragonfhip moft pro- bably remained till the middle of the fecond century. Then the •royal houfe of the Creones was nominated to it, and Trenmor, Trathal, Xomhal, and Fingal fucceeded each other as regularly iu the public command as in the private monarchy 39. All thefe tribes were firft called by the general appellation of Ca r ledonians or Caledonian Britons 4 °. And this appellation was not de- rived, as the learned Macpherfon imagines 41, from the two words Cael andDon, and fignifies the Gauls of the Hills. It was the deno- mination of the inhabitants equally in the Lowlands of the eaftern coaftand on the mountains of the northern and weftern Highlands 4 *. This appellation, originally peculiar to the tribe that ranged iu a long line acrofs the ifland and inhabited the hills in common . 2 with