CHAPTER III.
First Colonists--The Landing of Ceasair, before the Flood--Landing of Partholan, after the Flood, at Inver Scene--Arrival of Nemedh--The Fomorians--Emigration of the Nemenians--The Firbolgs--Division of Ireland by the Firbolg Chiefs--The Tuatha De Dananns--Their Skill as Artificers--Nuada of the Silver Hand--The Warriors Sreng and Breas--The Satire of Cairbre--Termination of the Fomorian Dynasty.
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1599.] We shall, then, commence our history with such accounts as we can find in our annals of the pre-Christian colonization of Erinn.

The legends of the discovery and inhabitation of Ireland before the Flood, are too purely mythical to demand serious notice.

But as the most ancient MSS.
agree in their account of this immigration, we may not pass it over without brief mention.
The account in the _Chronicum Scotorum_ runs thus:-- "Kal.

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