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'^ recedente a Britannia romano exercitu, cognita, Scoti & Pidi 

 " redilus denegatione, redeunt ipfi, et totam ab aquilone infu- 

 " lam Pro Indigents muro tenus capelTunl." 



Here then is a full confutation of the new Scottifli Archas- 

 ologia, that the Scots are' the pofterity of the true Caledonians. 

 Gildas writes of his own times, and confequently his authority 

 is irrefragable. Who were the Indigenas of the Pars Aquilonalis 

 of Britain Muro Tenus, but the Caledonians? If the Scots and 

 Pi61s feized on the pofTefTion of that part Pro Indigcnis, they 

 could not have been Indigenas themfelves, but a foreign nation 

 or nations ; confequently neither of them of Caledonian extrac- 

 tion. 



We now fee the whole portion of Britain, at this day called 

 Scotland, in full pofTeffion of the Scots and Pids for the firft 

 time ; for though both thefe nations had got footing there fome 

 ages before, and been very troublefome neighbours to the natives 

 as well as to the Romans, it does not appear that they poffeffed 

 a fufficient portion of this country to defervc the name of a king- 

 dom 'till this period ; but all Caledonia being now divided be- 

 -tween them, we may from hence date the commencement of 

 their refpedive Dynafties, which fubfifted independent of each 

 other, 'till the Scots fwallowed up all in the reign of Kenneth 

 the Second. 



From this time the Scots appear to have continued not long 

 "without an eftablifhed monarch, but to have invited froTn Ire- 

 land Fergus, the fon of Arcath, or Erk according to the Scottifli 



writers, 



