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more than probable that Scythian colonics did arrive here before 

 tlie "Incarnation.'^"- 



' The Scots issued from Scandinavia a\id were named by our 

 Firbolgs, Scutten, the "Welsh Y-scot, expressing- in their respec- 

 tive languages Scythians and Scots.'^^- ' And the Scot bhearla, ac- 

 cording to Irish historians, was the vernacular one of the Neme- 

 thians. All grant these were a Scythian or Teutonic colony. 

 They M ere probably the people of Worms, called Nemetes, and 

 were seated about Spire and Mentz.'^"- He continues to inform 

 us, upon the authority of Whitaker's Manchester, p. 428, vol. 1. 

 which I find in vol. 2. p. 225. ' that the Saxons and Cimbri, in 

 the second century, applied themselves to navigation, and became 

 formidable to the Romans. That they soon made themselves 

 known to the inhabitants of the British isles by their piracies, 

 and were styled Lochlyn or Lochlynach ; that they look pos- 

 session of the Orkney island, landed in the north of Ireland, 

 and ravaged the country. That before the middle of the third 

 century they landed a second time in Ireland, disembarked a 

 considerable body of men, and designed its absolute subjec- 

 tion.' 



His Roman authors are Eumenius the panegyrist, who speaks 

 of ' the Irish and the Picts invading Britain 55 years before 

 Christ.'"- He introduces Claudian, who ' makes the Scots fly to 

 tlie north when they were broken and dispersed.' Yet, he adds, 

 * at this time, about the end of the fourth century, the same 

 poet establishes them in Ireland.'^-- ' Sidonius ApoUinaris joins 

 the Scots, Saxons and Picts as khidred people.'^^- ' Claudius does 



38. Antiq. of Ireland, p. 2i. 39. lb. p. II. 40. lb. p. IS. 



41. lb, p. 1+. 42. ' Totam cum Scotus lernem niovit ' 4^3. Antiq. of Irel. p. 11. 



