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 4j4 THE HISTORY Book L About the commencement of the Chriftian aera, the Brigante? of- Yorkshire and Durham, as I have fhewed before, invaded die comities of Cumberland Weftmoreland Lancafter and Che- fter ; and three new tribes feem to have fettled in the ifland* Thefe are the Voluntii, the Caucii, and the Coriondii. The pame of the Voluntii is a fufficient indication of their origin And the name of the Caucii feems equally to indicate theirs, and to evince their derivation from the Coccium of the Siftuntil and the metropolis of Lancashire, When the names of any towns upon the weftern coaft of Britain are retained in the ap- pellations of any tribes upon the eaftern fhore of Ireland, we muft naturally conclude the one to have given denomination to the ether. And that the nation of the Caucii and the tribe of the Menapii were not, as Richard aflerts them to be, two colo* nies from the Cauchi and Menapii of Germany, we have positive reafons to conclude. All the tribes of the ifland muft undoubt- edly have come originally from Britain? * All the tribes of it* eaftern (hore in particular muft undoubtedly have come originally from the oppofite coaft of Britain* And we find the names of places* m the countries which both of the nations- poffefle& clearly and invariably Gallic, as Modona, Slanus, Clone-gall and Scare-watch, Ballinacur, Ballinderry, Rathdurm, Kilkenny^ Kilnemore, Ballifoyle, Kibufli, Killeaagh, and Balageene among' the Menapii, and as Dunum the metropolis and Oboca the li- mitary ftream, Rathmines, Rathgar, Rathfarnum, Dundrura t Killininy, Keilgobbin, Kiliternan, Rath-Do wne, Killcooli, and Killtemen among the Ckucii. The Caucii and Menapii there- fore muft be as littlfe Teutonic in their origin as the Damnii and the Voluntii, muft- as well as they have defcended from the op* polite coaft of Britain, and muft as well as the Bibroces of Britain be derived from feme town of a kindred appellation with* ^hemfelves* The Caucii in particular muft be derived from the Coccium of the Siftuntii, a town the only one upon the coaft that bears a flmilar appellation, a tribe the moft likely of all others to* itave fettled immediately to the ibuth of the Voluntii; and Lanca- flute