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Syniniachus at Rome. Tlio Scots, a Celtic tribe, previously inha- 

 biting; some part of Western Europe, emigrated into Ireland during 

 the third century, and gave to that isle, pro tempore, the name of 

 Scotland. Thence they spread over the Western islands, and took 

 possession of the neighbouring district of Argyle, the land of the 

 Gael or Gaul — giving eventually their name to the Northern part of 

 Britain generally. May we not suppose the Irish and Scotch grey- 

 hounds to have been primevally derived from the same Celtic stock, 

 accompanying these emigrants of Celtic Europe to Ireland, and 

 thence to Scotland ; in one or other of which territories they re- 

 ceived the name of Canes Scotici, from the Scotish emigrants of 

 Celtica, who accompanied them ? ^ and may not the English grey- 

 hound, improved in speed by careful management and judicious 

 breeding, as his master increased in civilization and became more 



1. Julius Caasar says of Britain, " Maritiraa pars ab iis incolitur qui prffidfe ac De bello 



belli inferendi causa ex Belgis Iransierant." Ptolemy and Tacitus confirm the sup- trallico L. iv. 



posed connexion of the Britons and Gauls ; " Proximi Gallis et similes sunt," says Geogr. L. ii. 



the latter, " seu durante origiiiis vi ; seu procurrentibus in diversa terris, positio coeli Taciti 



corporibus habitum dedit. In universum tainen jestimanti, Gallos vicinum solum Agricola. 

 occupasse credibile est." And Juvenal tells us, in Hadrian's reign, that British 

 lawyers learned Greek and Roman eloquence of their Gallic neighbours — 



Gallia causidicos docuit facunda Britannos. Sat. xv. vs. 111. 



Indeed, from the coast of Kent to the extremity of Caithness and Ulster, the memory 



of a Celtic origin was for centuries distinctly preserved in the perpetual resemblance 



of language, religious rites, and domestic customs and manners. As an example of 



similarity of habits in the insular and continental Celtaj, it may be noted that Arrian De Venatione 



records the marked adoration paid by the latter to Diana Agrotera ; and Holinslied, c. xxxiii. 



on the authority of earlier historians, observes, " Amongst other the Goddes also, gee Note 12. 



whiche the Scottishmen had in most reverence, Diana was chiefe, whom they ac- o/ the Transla- 



compted as their peculiar patronesse, for that she was taken to be the Goddesse of ' * 



hunting, wherein consisted their chiefest exercise, pastime and delite." Not being 



able to fix with accuracy the date of their irruption into Britain in the dark ages of 



our early annals, tliis laborious chronicler is inclined to consider the Celtic Scoti 



" such as by obscure invasion have nestled in this islande ;" but subsequently, in his Description of 



" Historie of Irelande," he suggests a date later than the birth of Christ for the " <"iie> t. t 



inhabitancy of the Scoti on British soil (circiter A. D. 300.), though previously in 



occupation of Ireland and the Hebrides. 



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