Excerpt from The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation, Vol. 1: With an Abstract and Catalogue of Their Works; Their Various Editions; And the Judgment of the Learn'd Concerning Them Nine the/e Cimbrians, fay: Bi/hup Stillingfleet, being tempted by Ri vers, as Ohm; Rudleck conjeetures, (f) having no Skill in Navigation or Aflronomy, and the Woods, in the Firfi Ages of the World, being unpallable, the People (till went further and further by the Rivers fide, till at 1311, finding theml'elves Bounded by the valt Mountains in there Northern Countries, and the Sea beyond them, they far down there, and in time (0 Replenilh'd thol'e' Parts, that they were willing to dil'charge themfelves, by fending Colonies Abroad. To which End, they accu fi'omed themfelves to the Sea, and fo from thence thele Scythian; came into the Northern Parts of Britain, where they had the Name of Caledo. Niono. Now Ireland, being the next Adjacent Country to them, and in their View, it mat very Natural for them, when they were over-flocked with Teaple, to fend acolony there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.