Chapter Caroline to Carthon of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Carter (Mrs. Deborah), housekeeper to Surplus the lawyer.—Morton: A Regular Fix.

Carthage. When Dido came to Africa she bought of the natives “as much land as could be encompassed with a bull’s hide.” The agreement being made, Dido cut the hide into thongs, so as to enclose a space sufficiently large for a citadel, which she called Bursa, “the hide.” (Greek, boursa, “a bull’s hide.”)

The following is a similar story in Russian history:—The Yakutsks granted to the Russian explorers as much land as they could encompass with a cow’s hide; but the Russians, cutting the hide into strips, obtained land enough for the town and fort which they called Yakutsk.

A similar legend is connected with Doncaster, under the supposition that Don=“thong,” and that Don- caster=“Thong-city.” Of course it is the city on the river Don. It was the Dona Castre of the Anglo-Saxons, and the Danum of the Romans.

Carthage of the North. Lübeck was so called when it was the head of the Hanseatic League.

Carthon, son of Clessammor and Moina, born while Clessammor was in flight; his mother died in childbirth. When he was three years old, Comhal (Fingal’s father) took and burnt Balclutha (a town belonging to the Britons, on the Clyde), but Carthon was carried away safely by his nurse. When grown to man’s estate, Carthon resolved to revenge this attack on Balclutha, and accordingly invaded Morven, the kingdom of Fingal. After overthrowing two of Fingal’s heroes, Carthon was slain by his own father, who knew him not; but when Clessammor learnt that it was his own son whom he had slain, he mourned for him three days, and on the fourth he died.—Ossian: Carthon.