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 Chap. XII. OF. MANCHESTER. 433 Donegalle, all Deny, and all Antrim to the Promontory Fair- Head and the Damnii, giving their own name to the Fair-Head and to the divifion of Raphoe, having the rivers Vidua or Ship- harbour, Argita or Logh Swilly, Darabouna or Logh Foile, and Banna or Ban in their territories, and acknowledging Robogdium, Robogh, or Raphoe for their chief city. And the central regions of the ifland, all Tyrone, the remainder of Fermanagh and Letrim, all Monaghan, the remainder of Ardmagh, all Cavan, all Longford, all Weft-Meath, all the King's and all the Queen's County, all Kilkenny, and all Tipperary, were planted by the Scoti ; the Shannon, Logh Allin, and Logh Erne being their great boundaries upon the weft, the Barrow, the Boyne, and Logh Neagh upon the eaft, the rivers Swire and Blackwater on the fouth, and a chain of mountains on the north ; the two greateft of their towns being Rheba, a city feated, like the Rheba of the Venicnians, upon the lake and river Rhebius, but upon a different part of them and fomewherc in the north of Cavan, and lbernia, a town placed a little to the eaft of the Shannon and fomewhere in the county of Tipperary l When the Belgrc firft landed upon the fouthern ihore of Bri- tain, about three hundred and fifty years before the Chriftian sera, and took pofiefiion of Kent Suffex Hampfliire Dorfetfhire and Devonfhire, the native Britons, diflodged from their antient fettlements, tranfported themfelves into the neighboun- ing Hie of Ireland x This fine ifland was then entirely unoc- cupied, and now firft received a colony of inhabitants ". This fine ifland was then denominated Er-in, Icrne, Ierine, or Ivernia, Er, ler, or Iver fignifying the Weftern, and Inis, Ine f or In im- porting the Ifland "• And this colony was afterwards augmented by the addition of other Britons, equally diflodged from their native regions by the Belgat, and equally repairing to the wilds of Ireland. This fecond colony of Britons was wafted over into Ireland about two hundred and fifty years after the firft, when Divitiacus reduced the Bibroces of Surry, the Caffii of Middlefex and Eflex, the Segontiaci, the Haedui, the Cimbri, and the Carnabii l And both the colonies, flying equally from K k k the