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of his own death* and of that all-conruming plague
which fvvept away in one week's time, all his po-
fterity, and all their fubjeds ; To that not a fingle
man or woman remained alive in the whole king-
dom. This extraordinary event happened about
three hundred years after Partholanus had pofl'efled
himfelf of Ireland ; and this total excifion of his
poiterity and fubjecfts, was a judgment inflicfted
upon that wicked man for the double parricide he
had committed in Greece.
After the extinction of this firft Hibernian
colony, Nemedius, another Prince of Magog's race,
and the eleventh in defcent from Noah *, repeo-
pled the ifland, which had been a perfed wilder-
nefs for thirty years. Nemedius began his voyage
in the Euxine Sea, and after a long and very
ftrange navigation, arrived at length in Ireland.
His fleet confided of four and thirty tranfports,
and every one of them was manned with thirty
heroes.
The great improvements made by this new
fovereign in Ireland, the lakes which broke out
there under his reign, the battles he fought againfl
fome African pirates, the grievous misfortune
which broke his heart, the mofl cruel opprelfions
which his pofterity and people fuffered after his
death ; thefe and many other curious occurrences
are fet down at large in thofe annals to which we
have already referred.
The Nemedians were fo unmercifully iifed by
the vi(ftorious Africans, that after feveral ineffedual
efforts to recover their hberty, they found them-
* Partholanus was the eighth.
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