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292 NOTES.die Umbro, as the Italians use the Ablative Instead of the Nomina,tive) the same with the Ilumber in England. In the same districtwe find a town of the name of Narnia, the same with ]\mrn inScotland. Here ^^e also find a man of the name of Tages (GalliceTagh or Tadgh^ the same name as that of the grand father ofFingal) of whom Cicero^ de divinatione^ lib. 2, gives the followingaccount. Tages Quidam dicitur, in agro Torquiniensi,quum terra araretur, et sulcus altius impressus, extitisse repente,€t eum alTatus esse qui arabat, &c. i. e. " When a man wasplowing in the Tarquinian field, and had drawn a deep furrow,a certain one Tages is said to have started up suddenly, and addressedhim." But this Tr/^e^, according to the books of theEtrusci, is said to have had the appearance of a boy, but the"wisdom of an old man. When the plowman, terrified at thesight of him, had raised a loud cry, the people assembled, andall Etruria convened in a short time to that place. Then Tagesspoke many things in the audience of the multitude, who markedall his words, and committed thsm to writing. But his wholespeech was confined to the liaruspiciiiian doctrine, i. e. " theart of divination by the entrails of victims, &c." Ovid. lib. 15.Nctam. mentions this same Tages,Indigenae dixere Tageniy qui primus HetruscamEdocuit gentem casus aperire futures, &c,i. e. " The aboriginal inhabitants call him Tages, who firsttaught the Tuscan nation to disclose future events."Were we in this manner to pervade Europe, and contrastthe names found therein, with the names in any particular districtof Britain or Ireland, we might form a tolerable conjectureof the origin of the inhabitants.The Fir.Bolg of Ireland (ViriBe/gki,) are unquestionably a colony from Belgic Gaul.Caerndrvon in Walps, (p4mtalm Narbownsiy) derives its namefrom Narbhontie, a town in Gallia Narboneiuis,The Taixali ofAberdeenshire were ^.rcbab'iy from tho Tcxelni Holland. TheFins are fre]uent in Brtnn and Ireland, and on the Baltic wefind a \^liole diUrict (Finlan J) bearing their came. Tacitus (/«?/(^.-^c^'^-/^^^c/