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sea, from his extraordinary skill in navigation and
commerce. He was truely the son of Alladius*,
who was ofroyal blood, and his own name Orbsen
but call'd Manannan from his country, and kill'd
by one Ullin near Galway, in Ireland: of all which
the particulars will be given in their proper place,
especially the republic of Manannan; who, from
his instruction by the Druids, was reputed a consummate
magician, and was indeed most happy
in stratagems of war both by land and sea. Mr.
Sacheverell, except in affirming Manannan (whom
he misnames Mannan) to
have been the father,
founder, and legislator of the islandlf, is out in
every thing he says concerning him : for, instead
of living about the beginning of the fifth century,
he liv'd as many centuries before Christ; and so
cou'd not be contemporary with Patric, the apostle
of Man as well as Ireland.
Neither was Manannan
the son of a king of Ulster, nor yet the brother
of Fergus II J:,
king of Scotland: and as for his
not being able to get any information what became
of him, I have already told that he was kill'd in
Ireland, and by whom.
III. In process of time the earns, to which we
now return, serv'd every where for beacons, as
many of them as stood conveniently for this purpose:
but they were originally design'd, as we are
now going to see, for fires of another nature.
fact stood thus.
The
On May-eve the Druids made
* Allaid. + Page 20. + ibid.