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COLNA-DONA
OEM.
inOL-AMON * of troubled flreams, dark wan-
^^ derer 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 (tars ;
her arms were white as the foam of ftreams.
Her breaft rofe (lowly to fight, like ocean's
heaving wave. Her foul was a dream of light.
Who, among the maids, was like the love of
heroes ?
* Colna-dona fignifies the love cf heroes. Col-amon, «/zr-
row river. Car-ul, dark eyed, Col-amon, the refidence of
Car-ul, was in the neighbourhood of Agricola'* wall, to-
wards the fouth. Car-ul feems to have been of the race
of thofe Britons, who are diftinguiihed by the name of
Maiatre, by the writers of Rome. Maiatse is derived from
two Galic words, Moi, a plain, and Aitich, inhabitants ;
fo that the fignification of Maiatse is, the inhabitants of the
plain country ; a name given to the Britons, who were fet-
tled in the Lowlands, in contradiftinclion to the Caledo-
nians (i. e) Cael-Don, the Gauls of the hills)^ who were
poffefled of the more mountainous divifion of- North-
Britain.
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