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—540 NOTES.nis, (says he,) in Asia Minor bear the same origin as Pendennisin Cornwall? This question is best answered by proposing afew more of the same kind. Did New England in America,bear the same origin with Old Ejigland in Britain ? Did MagnaGrcEcia bear the same origin as Grcecia Antkjna? Did NovaScotia bear the same origin as Scotia Aniiqua? Did Prince ofWales^ Island bear the same origin as a British Prince of Wales .^Did Montrose estate in Jamaica, bear the same origin as Montrosein the county of Forfar?as Old Holland:^Did New flollandhear the same originDid the Caledonian P//v bear the same originas the Norwegian Fihtveriar?This last Mr. Pinkarton has answeredin the affirmative, and swallowed without a grudge, becauseit suited his favourite system. Whenever any word occurswhich would favour the Celts, it is a mere fall of letters,but he can hammer out a name for his favourite Fiks, wherethere is nofalllpj letters at all.Vihiveriar^ is merely the Saxonor Gothic F^/^^,;signifyi^g strong or wiglit^ and Vcri', the same"with the Roman Vir^ or the Celtic Icar^ signifying a man.literally our modern sirname wight man.It isIf every thing Celtic is sure to be reprobated by Mr. Pinkarton,the Celts themselves are still more roughly treated. Henever mentions them with temper. He calls them the Jirst sa.vages ofEurope— the savage Celts — Catherens, Kerns^ and Thieves-—mere savages— the true Milesian breeds &c. &c. Not oneHighlander (he says) is to he found in the whole history of Scot^bers— theijare dreaded by the Lowlunders^ as all civilized nationsland after the year 1056they are mentioned as thieves and rvb^fear savages— they are like the Macassars and wild Americans&c. &c. Is this the sob^r language of history, or even of de"cent abuse? The Celts have been harrassed and plundered bjrthe Goths time immemorial, and tveutually driven from the oneextremity of Europe to the other ; nor are they at all culjiablefor having made repeated clTg its to recover what was originallytheir own.