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was written. This is the celebrated poem so essential to Scottish history, which 

 has been published from this very copy by Pinkerton and by O' Conor; and no 

 other ancient copy is now known to exist, nor could any other be found in 

 the time of O'Flaherty, more than a century since. 



Page 418, — An account of the settlement of the Picts in Scotland, and of 

 the wars of the Picts and Scots with the Romans. This tract, which is written in 

 Latin, and occupies five pages, is a very valuable document, and, I believe, as yet 

 unpublished. 



To this is appended, in our transcript, fourteen pages of very interesting 

 matter not found in the original work, but copied from an insertion by Ma« 

 Firbis himself in an abstract of it written in 1666. It gives an account of the 

 first establishment of the claims of the Milesians to the Scottish sovereignty, and 

 of the succession of the Stewarts, their genealogy, intermarriages, &c. ; with a 

 collection of some Irish and Scottish surnames. 



Page 426, — A list of the Christian kings of Leinster, from an ancient poem. 



Page 430, — The history and genealogies of the Lagenian families, descended 

 from Leary, the son of Hugony the Great. 



Page 461, — Genealogies of the descendants of the monarch Cathaoir more. 



Page 472, — Ancient and modem compilations of the genealogies of the 

 Leinster families, as the Mac Murroghs or Cavanaghs, O' Byrnes, O'Tooles, 

 Fitz Patricks, &c. 



Page 485, — The history and genealogies of the families descended from Ir, 

 son of Milesius, — the ancient Ultonians. 



Page 491, — A short metrical and prose extract from the book of Sabhall 

 Phadraig, (now Saul, county of Down,) treating of the Ulidians. 



Page 493, — An account of the families of the Ulidians, called Dal Fiatach, 

 taken from the book of Saul. 



Page 505, — An account of the poets of Ireland and Scotland. 



Page 514, — An account of the Dalaradians, 



Page 535, — An account of the descendants of Fergus Mac Roigh. 



Page 556, — The history and genealogies of the families of Leix. 



Page 561, — Genealogies of the Ultonians, from the book of Saul, Psalter 

 of Cashel, Book of Lecan, &c. 



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