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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2-» S. IX. Feb. 4. '60. 



counsellor of the said King, Lyon King-of-Arms, and 

 Unicprn-pursuivant."] 



acjilietf. 



THE HYPERBOREANS IN ITALY. 



(2 nd S. vi. 181.) 



In a former article I offered some remarks upon 

 the passage of Heraclides, cited by Plutarch, in 

 ■which he speaks of Rome as captured by an army 

 of Hyperboreans, and as being situated at the 

 extremity of Europe, near the Great Sea. 



The most probable supposition seems to be, 

 that Heraclides conceived Rome as situated in 

 the far west, on the shore of the external or cir- 

 cumfluous ocean, and as having been invaded by 

 an army of Hyperboreans who descended along 

 the northern coast of Europe. 



Niebuhr, however, in his History of Rome, vol. i. 

 p. 86. (Engl, transl)., inverts this testimony, and 

 brings the Hyperboreans to Italy, in order to 

 identify them with the Pelasgians. As a support 

 to this fanciful combination, he cites a passage of 

 Stephanus Byzantinus in TapKvvia, who, after stat- 

 ing that TapKvyia or Tarquinii is a city of Etruria, 

 which derived its name from Tarchon (compare 

 Muller, Etrusher, vol. i. p. 72.), adds, that the 

 Tarcymei are a nation of Hyperboreans, among 

 whom the griffins guard the gold, as Hierocles re- 

 ports in his work entitled the Philistores. 



Hierocles, a writer of uncertain date, but pos- 

 terior to Strabo, composed a work called *iAiVto- 

 pes, which appears to have contained a collection 

 of marvellous stories relating to remote countries. 

 Three fragments of this work are extant (see C. 

 Muller, Frag. Hist. Gr. vol. iv. p. 429-30.). 



The Tarcynsei of Hierocles seem to have taken 

 the place of the one-eyed Arimaspians, who are men- 

 tioned by ^Eschylus as dwelling near the griffins, 

 in an auriferous region, at the eastern extremity 

 of the earth (Prom. 782.). According to Hero- 

 dotus, the Arimaspians stole the gold from the 

 griffins ; the griffins dwelt beyond the Arimas- 

 pians, and guarded the gold ; the Hyperboreans 

 dwelt beyond the griffins, and reached as far as 

 the sea (iii. 116., iv. 13. 27.). But there is no 

 reason for thinking that the Tarcynaei were any 

 thing but the fictitious name of an imaginary 

 people, supposed to dwell near the griffins at the 

 extremity of the earth, or that they had any con- 

 nexion with Italy. 



Niebuhr adds a further conjecture, founded on 

 the mention of ntpcpepees in Herod, iv. 33. This 

 was a name of certain sacred officers at Delos, 

 which was derived from their bringing sacred gifts 

 from the Hyperboreans, by a circuituous route 

 passing through the Adriatic and Dodona. Nie- 

 buhr supposes that irepQephs is borrowed from the 

 Latin word perferre, and that the gifts in ques- 



tion were sent from a Pelasgian tribe in Italy, 

 called Hyperboreans, by way of Dodona to De- 

 los. The learning respecting these bearers of 

 sacred sheaves is collected by Spanheim ad Callim. 

 Del. 283. There is nothing in the passages ad- 

 duced by him which gives any countenance to 

 this wild conjecture. The explanation of Muller, 

 (Dor. ii. 4. 4.), who connects the legends respect- 

 ing the Hyperborean messengers with the worship 

 of Apollo has more to recommend it; but the 

 subject is one of those fragments of ritual history 

 in which it is prudent to keep strictly within the 

 limits of the accounts handed down to us by the 

 ancients. G. C. Lewis. 



DRUMMOND OF COLQUHALZIE. 



(2 nd S. viii. 327.) 



Perhaps the following cutting from the Perth- 

 shire Courier of 27th October may be useful to the 

 correspondent who inquires about the Colquhalzie 

 family : — 



" A correspondent of Notes and Queries asks — ' Cun 

 any of your readers oblige me with information whether 

 Drummond of Colquhalzie in Perthshire, whose estate 

 was forfeited in 1745 or 1746, was related to the then 

 Earl of Perth? and if so, in what degree?' On seeing 

 the above, we consulted Malcolm's Genealogical Memoir 

 of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond (pub- 

 lished at Edinburgh in 1808), which contains an ample 

 genealogy of the family of Colquhalzie, as a branch from 

 the main stem of the Drummonds. The following is 

 an abstract of the account of this ancient Perthshire 

 family : — 



" Sir Maurice Drummond, Knight of Concraig, was 

 the second son of Sir Malcolm Drummond, the 10th 

 thane of Lennox. He married the only child and heiress 

 of Henry, heritable steward of Strathearn, and got with 

 her the office and fortune of her father at his death. 

 Tbey were confirmed to him by King David Bruce, and 

 his nephew Robert, earl of Strathearn, in 1358. He 

 left issue — 1, Sir Maurice, who succeeded; 2. Malcolm, 

 founder of Colquhalzie; and 3, Walter of Dalcheeflck. 

 This Sir Malcolm, the 10th thane, was the ancestor of 

 the families of Concraig, Colquhalzie, Pitkellony, Mewie, 

 Lennoch, Megginch, Balloch, Broich, Milnab, &c. These 

 were great and respectable families, whose posterity 

 flourished long in Strathearn ; but they are all now ex- 

 tinct except Lennoch and Megginch. 



" Malcolm Drummond, the second son of Sir Maurice, 

 purchased the half lands of Colquhalzie, and his succes- 

 sors afterwards secured the other half. He was a man 

 of great action and courage. At the battle of Harlaw he 

 and his brother Maurice did considerable service. He 



married Barclay, daughter to the laird of Collerny 



in Fife, and had one son, John, who succeeded. 



" John Drummond, 2d of Colquhalzie, married 



Campbell, daughter of the brother of the earl of Argyle, 

 and had by her four sons and a daughter. 



" Maurice (eldest son), 3d of Colquhalzie, succeeded 



about 14(56. He married Cunningham, daughter to 



the laird of Glengarnoch, by whom he had only one 

 daughter, Margaret. 



" Margaret Drummond, heiress of Colquhalzie, married 

 John Inglis, a gentleman in Lothian, the marshal, and 

 a special servant to James IV., and left three sons and 

 two daughters. Her youngest daughter, Margaret Inglis, 



