Ossian Collection > Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books

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lOL-AMON of troubled ftreams, dark wanderer of diftant
vales, I behold thy courfe, between trees, near Car-ul's
echoing halls. There dwelt bright Colna-dona, the daughter of
the king. Her eyes were rolling ftars ; her arms were white as the
foam of ftreams. Her bread rofe flowly to fight, like ocean's
heaving wave. Her foul was a ftream of light. — Who, among the
maids, was like the love of heroes ?
* Colna-dona fignifies the hve of heroes,
Colamon, narrcM rixtr, Car-ul, dark-
eyed. Colamon, the refuJence of Car-ul,
was in the neighbourhood of Agricola's
wall, towards the fouth. Car-ul feems lo
have been of the race of thofe Britons,
who are diflinguiflied by the name of Maia-
tas, by the writers of Rome. MaiatK is
derived from two G.'.'ic word:?, Moi, a
plain, and AiTicH, inhabitants; fo that
the {ignification of Maiatse is, the inhabi-
tants of the plain country ; a name given to
the Britons, who were fettled in the Low-
lands, in contradiftinciion to the Caledo-
nians, (i. e. Cael-don, the Gauls of the
hills) who were poflelled of the more moun-
tainous divifion of North- Britain.
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