The Complete History of Ireland, from the Earliest Times, Vol. 1

Excerpt from The Complete History of Ireland, From the Earliest Times, Vol. 1: Being Compiled From a Connected Continuation by Approved Standard Writers; From the Earliest Records, to the End of the Twelfth Century

The Brigantes of Spain (so called from Breogan, grandfather to Milesius) became a respectable, warlike, and commercial people, about A. M. 2600; and a part of their posterity conquered Ireland in the year of the world 2736.

As to the history of the people, on which this chronology is founded, every evidence and every circumstance that can in reason he expected, seem combined to stamp ao thority on it. From Phaenius to the sons of Milesius, their exploits, their travels, successes, and disappointments, have been narrated from age to age with such an air of native simplicity and candour, that it would be hard to conceive - even sup posing it an imposture - what could be proposed by the deception. The short ness of the voyages; their coasting from land to land; and the length of time they were tossed about, so as to take some years in passing from Phoenicia to Getulia, plainly show that this expedition was un dertaken in the very infancy of navigation.

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