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their Antiquity. They are entirely wrote in that romantic
Tafte, which prevailed two Ages ago. Giants, enchanted Caf-
tles. Dwarfs, Palfreys, Witches and Magicians form the whole
Circle of the Poet's Invention. The celebrated Fion could
fcarcely move from one Hillock to another, without encounter-
ing a Giant, or being entangled in the Circles of a Magician.
Witches, on Broom-Sticks, were continually hovering round
him, like Crows ; and he had freed enchanted Virgins in every
Valley in Irela?id. In fliort, Fion, great as he was, paffed a dif-
agreeable Life. Not only had he to engage all the Mifchiefs in
his own Country, foreign Armies invaded him, aflifted by Ma-
gicians and Witches, and headed by Kings, as tall as the Main-
mail of a firft Rate. It muft be owned, however, that Fion was
not inferiour to them in Height.
AcHos AIR Cromleach, Druim-ard,
Chos eile air Crom-mea/ dubh,
Thoga Fion le lamh mhoir
An d'uisge o Lubhair na fruth,
Wifi one Foot on Cromleach his Broiv,
7'he other on Crotnmal the dark,
Fion took up with his large Hand
'J'he Water from Lubar of the Streams^
Cromleach and Crommal were two Mountains in the Neighbour-
hood of one another, in JJlJler, and the River Lubar ran through
the intermediate Valley. The Property of fuch a Monfter as
this Fion, I fhould never have difputed with any Nation. But
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