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the southern Britons were extirpated, those who inhabited 

 the different northern regions of modern Scotland were able 

 to preserve their independence, and were found by Agricola 

 under the name of Caledonians, a people who were of a florid 

 complexion, and whose other features indicated a German 

 extraction. 



" The Flint knives, daggers, arrow heads, spear heads, 

 stone hammers, and chisels, which have been found in 

 Ireland, in great quantities, are so exactly similar in form and 

 character to those found in Funen^ in Denmark^ and figured 

 and published by the Northern Antiquarian Society, that 

 those figures on their plates might be taken as correct repre- 

 sentations of our Irish articles. A very remarkable instance 

 is to be found in a flint dagger in our own Museum, which 

 I now lay before the Academy, with the Danish plate. Den- 

 mark was the country of the Cimbri, the descendants of 

 the Caledonians : the Welsh have ever, and still call them- 

 selves by that name. The places in that part of Scotland, of 

 which the Picts last retained possession before their extir- 

 pation by the Scotch from Ireland, still abound in Welsh 

 denominations, and seem to me to ofler unquestionable tes- 

 timony, when all these circumstances are taken together 

 with the occurrence of similar monuments in all the British 

 islands, and in Denmark, that they are of the Belgic or 

 Firbolg people ; and the Belgas and Cimbri were people of 

 the same primitive northern race, using stone weapons and 

 tools ; perhaps the first inhabitants of these countries. 



" I now proceed to say a few words on the name of the hill 

 Knock Mary, and its adjoining neighbour, Knockmaroon. 



" These names being Celtic Irish, and in the language of 

 the nation which succeeded the people who constructed these 

 monuments, could have no reference to the individuals 

 buried, but must have been given to the things themselves, 

 and consequently must have been of a generic character, 

 and appHcable generally. The Celtic Irish were the people 



