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136 F I N G A L. Book II.
520 Son of the Car, with Reafon you bewail.
Sad are thy Words, and forrowful the Tale
Of Damma?is Son ! The Youth's unhappy Fate
Sends back my Soul to Times of ancient Date :
For I a valiant Chief nam'd Comal knew,
525 Who inadvertently his Miftrefs ilew ;
Yet after that, fuccefsful in the Field
The Hero prov'd, and made the mighty yield.
This Comal alfo was of Albioii Strain,
An hundred Hills compos'd his vaft Domain :
His
tions, introduces another Story of a fimilar Nature, purpofcly to (hew that
his Misfortunes did not arife from thence, as ill Succefs did not always at-
tend thofe who innocently killed their Friends.
V. 528. This Comal alfo was of Albion Strain.'] Alba, or Albin, ac-
cording to Mr. Macpherfon, is the Name by which the ancient Scots, in
their native Language, have from all Antiquity diftinguiflied their own
Divifion of Britain, and feems to be the Fountain from which the Greeks
deduced their Albion. Alb or Alp, in the Celtic, fignifies High, and In,
invariably, a Country. Britain he derives, in the fame Manner, from the
Celtic Word, Brait, High, and An or /», a Country.
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