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CATH-LODA:

POEM.

DUAN FIRST.

Vol. I.

ARGUMENT.

FINGAL, when very young, making a voyage to the Orkney islands, was driven, by firefs of weather, into a bay of Scandinavia, near the refidence of Starno, king of Lochlin. Starno invites Fingal to a feaft. Fingal, doubting the faith of the king, and mindful of a former breach of hospitality, refuses to go. Starno gathers together his tribes: Fingal refolves to defend himself. Night coming on, Duthmaruno proposes to Fingal, to observe 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 Conban-carglas, the captive daugh

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