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the history of Ireland. In 1804 a very excellently written work on "Irish Antiquities", proves to demonstration that all we have received as traditional legends with respect to former days and earlier periods of Ireland were concocted in the eleventh century & were fictions and had no reference to truth. The whole os fabulous, but derived great circulation from a love of the marvellous, and from national vanity. Before the 11th century little or nothing is known of Ireland.

Had the records of the Colony not been preserved with fidelity and care, and had the whole generation passed away which first settled in Van Diemen's Land, it is not improbable that some future writer may have extolled Wallao, the female native, into a heroine, as the defender of in her native woods against the aggressions of the British and placed her on a level with the British Queen who, it is said, resisted the Roman Arms for nine years. Speculation as now regards Van Diemen's Land is quite out of the Question - and for ever so.

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