92 MR DAVID B. MORRIS ON 
Teutonic races spreading north from England. The Celts, 
yielding to a stronger, or perhaps a more persistent race, 
gradually retreated, until they found shelter in the wild 
glens and lonely recesses of the mountains. There they 
were able to hold their own, and even in course of time to 
make reprisals on the low country. Along this dividing 
line between Celts and Teutons, the line of the great 
geological fault, the balance of strength seems to have been 
adjusted, and it is a remarkable fact that the dividing line 
between the two races and languages has remained exactly 
the same through many centuries down to the present day. 
A change, however, is now in rapid progress. Railway trains 
and tourist excursions are doing in a few years what the 
swords of Lowland knights and the pikes of their retainers 
failed in centuries to accomplish. Gradually Gaelic is 
becoming less and less spoken. English is now known 
everywhere, and before long, even on the Braes of Balquhidder 
and beyond the Pass of Aberfoyle, Gaelic will be but a 
tradition. 
The census returns for 1891 for the six counties show the 
following results. This table is taken from Bartholomew's 
Atlas :— 
Ponulation Gaelic, — Per- Gaelic and Per- 
E * | only. centage. | English. | centage. 
| 
/ 
| Perth, 5 é 126,199 304 0°24 13,847 10°97 
‘Stirling, . . | 125,608 2 aa) 1.840 1°46 
Clackmannan, . 28,432 Is } oe 215 0°76 
Kinross, . : 6,280 0 eae 56 0°89 
_ Fife, : , 187,346 6 726 0°39 
/ Linlithgow, : 52,808 2 486 0°92 
These figures show that the portions of our district 
comprised in the counties of Clackmannan, Kinross, Fife, and 
Linlithgow contain no indigenous Gaelic-speaking people, 
the few Gaelic speakers being immigrants from other 
districts. The figures for Perth and Stirling are large 
enough to show that in the Highland parts of these counties 
Gaelic is still to a great extent the daily language of the 
people. In the Forth Valley the Gaelic-speaking area is 
confined to the six parishes which I have called Highland, 
