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The WAR of CAROS,

CATHLIN of CLUTHA,
SUL-MALLA of LUMON,
WAR of INIS-THON A,
The SONGS of SELMA,

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ARGUMENT.

FINGAL, when very young, making a voyage to the Orkney islands, was driven, by stress of weather, into a bay of Scandinavia, near the refidence of Starno, king of Lochlin. Starno invites Fingal to a feast. Fingal, doubting the faith of the king, and mindful of a former breach of hofpitality, refuses to go.-Starno gathers together his tribes: Fingal refolves to defend himfelf.-Night coming on, Duth maruno proposes to Fingal, to obferve the motions of the enemy. The king himself undertakes the watch. Advancing towards the enemy, he, accidentally, comes to the cave of Turthor, where Starno had confined Conbancarglas, the captive daughter of a neighbouring chief. — Her story is imperfect, a part of the original being loft.-Fingal comes to a place of worship, where Starno and his fon, Swaran, confulted the fpirit of Loda, concerning the iffue of the war.-The rencounter of Fingal and Swaran. -Duän firft concludes with a defcription of the airy hall of Cruth-loda, fuppofed to be the Odin of Scandinavia,

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