ively Gwlad yr Haf,
or the summer country, that an extraordinary man was born amongst them,
who was called by Greeks and Romans, hundreds of years after his death,
Hesus, but whom the Cymry called, and still do call, Hu or Hee, with the
surname of Cadarn, or the Mighty. This Hu or Hesus taught his countrymen
the use of the plough, and to a certain extent civilized them. Finding
eventually that the summer country was becoming over-populated, he placed
himself at the head of a vast multitude and set off towards the west. Hu
and his people fought or negotiated their way through various countries
possessed by the Gael, till they came to the shore of the sea which
separates the great isle of the west from the continent. Hearing that it
was only thinly peopled they determined to pass over to it; and put their
determination into execution, crossing 'the hazy sea,' at present termed
the German Ocean, in boats made of wicker work and skins, similar to but
larger than the coracles which the Cymry always carried with them in
their long expeditions.

This great island was called Alban, Albyn, or Albion. Alban is a Gaelic
or Gaulic word, signifying properly a hill-region. It is to be found
under various modifications in different parts of the world, but only
where the Gaulic race have at some time sojourned. The word Afghan is
merely a modification of Alban, or Alpan; so is Armenia; so is Alp; so is
of course Albania. The term was given to the island simply because the
cliffs which fronted the continent, where the sea between the two lands
was narrowest, were very high and towering. The island at the time of
the arrival of the Cymry had, as has already been intimated, a scanty
population. This population consisted of Gael or Gauls, a people of
cognate race to the Cymry, and speaking a language much the same as
theirs, differing from it, however, in some respects. Hu and his people
took possession of the best parts of the island, either driving the few
Gaels to other districts or admitting them to their confederacy. As the
country was in a very wild state, much overgrown with forests in which
bears and wolves wandered, and abounding with deep stagnant pools, which
were the haunts of the avanc or crocodile, Hu forthwith set about
clearing it of some of its horrors, and making it more fit to be the
abiding place of civilized beings. He made his people cut down woods and
forests, and destroy, as far as was possible, wild bea