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 444 THE HISTORY < Book I* flxipfs they applied far affiftance to Caledonia, the land " of thp race of their fathers 4 V* Affiftance came. Gouar, the fecpncj fon of Trenmor, headed the troops 4 And the invaders were repelled 49 . The advantages of the Belgic form of government had now befen experimentally perceived, and an immediate union appear r ed neceffary among the difperfed tribes of the Britons. " The nations gathered in Ullin" or Ulfter 50, and refblved to ap- point a pendragon. And they unanimoufly nominated Conar ty the office, a chief nearly allied, as he muft have been 51 * to the Venicnian and Robogdian monarchs, an hero full of glory fof his former as ^yell as his late fucceffes in war 5 % and the only dictator by whom they might be fore to derive foccoui? fropx Ca*r ledonia upon any future emergency* Conar was inverted with a military authority over all the tribes of the Britons ; and th^ office was descendible to his heirs. The Britons, like the Caler do&ians before them, were embodied together under the one Celtic appellation of all the Britons. The Britons, like the CV Jedonians before them, were incorporated i«to ose monarchy voder the more diftktguifiiisg denomination of tjheir principal tribe. By the former they were denominated Gafchel Gael or Gauls, as I have already fhewn* By the latter they were en- titled Scutte or Scoti, as the progrefs of the hiftory and the a*> counts of Bede inform us. Temora, a town in the country of the Eblani, and the prefent Terah in the county of Eaft-Meath,. was made the capital of the confederated tribes. And this & exprefsiy denominated by Bede the metropolis of the Scots s3 ~. Thus unksd^ they were foon attacked by the Beigat. Sueccf* attended the attack. The Britons were mfuctd to great dtftrefe. Conar was obliged to foJacit affiftance from Caledonia Ai&baee came. The tide of fuccefs was turned. The Belgft wane de* Abated. And the country was recovered '*.. Unlucky a* thefe expedition? had hitherto been* the W^ were a&uated with too encroaching a ipirit to be lpqg «£ §?&*+ Cwar dkd foon after the UA f xp^dki^), Cftrfljae his. feft (m> ce^<^him;<*pd^ew»s«ow^je4^. The Ifelgfe ward*?* wkb * large