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NOTES,Note I.—Page 54.jH MONG those institutions ivhich are thought to be irrccoverahlyiosty one is that of the Druids^ Sfc.—This mistake is founded onthe opinion that the Druids were a religious sect totally distinctfrom all others ;and that, as they committed nothing to writing,their institutions perished when the order became extinct.ButDruidism was only a branch of the worship of the surij at onetime universal ;and so long as the well authenticated history ofthat worship in any nation remains, the history of Druidism caanever be completely lost.Note II.—Page 57,Since the Anglo Saxons having learned the word Dry fromthe Irish and British for a magician^ 6^c.—This etymology ofthe Saxon Dry from the Celtic Draoi or Draoid, pronouncedDrid and Druid^ is confirmed by Dr. Smith in his History of theDruids, and by Dr. Jamieson in his History of the Culdees,The absurd custom of deriYing every thing from the Greek andLatin is now, and indeed very properly, losing ground. TheCeltic Druid literally signifies a magician; and hence the translatorsof the New Testament into Gaelic, finding no other wordin that language fit for their purpose, rendered Simon MuguSySimon the Druid.In the Gaelic, ao is equivalent to the GreekYpsilon^ but has been commonly, though very erroneously, renderedby the Saxon i/. Hence it is obvious that the Saxon Dry,the Greek Drys^ with the addition of the terminating Sigma^ andthe Gaelic Drui, are the same. The name appears, from theKk