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372 F I N G A L. Book VI.
Tall Ullin ftruck liis Harp, and thus began —
In other Days liv'd Trenmor, fearlefs Man !
Who o'er the Northern Waves light-bounding flew,
Companion of each ftormy Blaft that blew,
70 Till dim through Mift he Lochlin\ Coaft defcried,
And Forefls murm'ring by the Water's Side.
Aflifted by a favourable Gale,
The Port he gain'd, and bound his fnowy Sail.
His firft Adventure, on this foreign Shore,
75 Was to encounter with a furious Boar
Of monftrous Size, grown fierce with human Blood,
That long infefted Gortnal\ neighb'ring Wood ;
Full
V". 67. In other Bays liv'd Trenmor, i^c.'\ T'renmor was the great
Grandfather of Fingal. The Poet, in order to reconcile the Generofity of
the King with the Affeclions of Nature and the Events of Probability, in-
troduces very artfully this Song oi Ullin; by which it appears that Swaran
was not only the Brother oi Fingal' s beloved Agandecca, but alfo related to
the King of the lonely Hills, whofe great Grandmother was Inibaca, Sifter
to a King oi Lechlin.
Y.79.