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ARRIVAL OF BRUTUS IN BRITAIN 1103 B.C. 155

quest of the island the goddess had told him of. So, with the consent of his company, he repaired the fleet and, loading it with the riches and spoils he had taken, set sail with a fair wind to the promised land, and arrived on the coast of Totnes.*

Arrival in Albion and Colonization of the Country as “ Brit-ain’’ about 1103 B.C.

“The island was then called A/bion,2 and was inhabited by a few ‘ giants.’ Notwithstanding this, the pleasant places, plenty of rivers abounding in fish, and its pleasing woods made Brutus and his company desirous to fix their habitation in it. They therefore passed through all the provinces, forced the ‘ giants ’ to fly into the caves of the mountains, and divided the country among them according to the directions of their commander.

‘“ After this they began to till the ground and build houses, so that in a little time the country looked like a place long inhabited. At last Brutus called the island after his own name ‘ Brit-ain,’ and his companions‘ Brit-ons’ . . . from whence afterwards the language of his nation, which at first bore the name of Trojan [Doric] or tough Greek, was called * British.

“But Corineus, in imitation of his leader, called that part of the island which was given to him as duke, ‘ Corinea’* and his people ‘ Corvinene’ [Cornish men] after his own name ; for though he had his choice of provinces before all the rest, yet he preferred this country [Corn-wall], which is now called, in Latin, ‘Cornubia.’ For it was a diversion to him to encounter the said ‘ giants,’ which were in greater numbers there than in all the other provinces. Among the rest was one detestable monster named Goémagot. . . On a certain day, when Brutus was holding a solemn festival to the gods in the port where they first landed, this ‘ giant,’ with a score of his companions, came in upon the Britons, making great slaughter. The Britons at last killed everyone but Goémagot, who was spared to wrestle with Corineus.* . . . Corineus, snatching him on his shoulders, ran with him to the shore and from the top of a high cliff hurled down the savage monster into the sea.

2On Totnes landing, see later.

='* Albion ”’ is the form used about 340 B.c. by Aristotle in De Mundo, 3.

*** Keynaw”’ is an old name for Cornwall in Gilbert’s Parochial Hist. of Cornwall, about 1580.

‘ This refers only to the “giants” of Totnes with its old tin and copper mines. The other “ giants of the provinces” are referred to in a previous paragraph.