Ancient Irish histories - v. 2 Author:James Ware Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: this History (as all Irish Antiquaries doe) but that I would not abuse the reader, being purposed beginning and ending to deliuer the truth, I read as followeth.... more » Whereas in the yeere of the world 1525, Noah began to admonish the people of vengeance to come by a generall deluge for the wickednesse and detestable sinne of man, and continued his admonition 120 yeeres, building an Arke for the safegard of himselfe and his family; one Cesara (say they) according vnto others Cesarea, a Neece of Noah, (when others seemed to neglect this forewarning) rigging a navy, committed her selfe with her adherents to the seas to seeke adventures, and to avoid the plagues that were to fall; there arrived in Ireland, with her three men, Eithi, Laigria, and Fintan, and fifty women; within forty dayes after her arrivall the universall flood came upon them and those parts, as well as upon the rest of the world, and drowned them all, in which perplexity of minde and imminent danger beholding the .waves overwhelming all things before their eyes, Fintan is said to have beene transformed into a Salmon, and to have swoome all the time of the deluge about Vlster, and after the fall of the water recovering his former shape, to have lived longer then Adam, and to have delivered strange things to the posterity, so that of him the common speech riseth; If I had lined Fintans yeeres I could say much. But to let these fables passe : The next plantationafter Bartholanus (as it is recorded amongst the collections of Irish antiquities) is this in effect, that Magog the sonne of laphet planted Colonies in Scythia neere the river of Tanais, from whence about the yeere of the world two thousand three hundred and seventeene, one Nemedus with his foure sonnes Starius, Garbaneles, jinvinus, and Fergusius, Captains ove...« less