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=NOTES. 365OS tliey tvere^ incapalle of industry or civilization^ even after halftheir blood is Gothic^ and remain as marked by the antients^fondof lies, and enemies of truth.—Ibidem & p. 69, Geofrey ofMonmouth, most of the Irish historians, and the Highland Bardsand Senachies of Scotland, sheic that falsehood is the natural promduct of the Celtic mind, and the case is the same to this dai/.reprobation can be too severe for such frontless impostors ;Noandto sai/ that a zoriter is a Celt, is to saj/ that he is a stranger totruth, modesty, and inorality.—Ibidem.If towns ivere builtforthem they would not inhabit them.— If peopled with Highlanders,they will be in ruins in half a century.— Had all these Celticcattle emigratedJive centuries ago, how happy had it been for thecountry! All we can do is to plant colonies among them; and bythis, and encouraging their emigration^ to get rid of the breed.—Vol. 1. p. 341.From these strictures the reader will see that Mr. Pinkartonis decidedly hostile to whatever bears the name of Celt, and nothingwill satisfy him but their utter extermination. He must,no doubt, be sensible that his Gothic system can never prevail,so long as there is one Celt left in the world to advocate thecause of truth, reason, or common sense.I have already shewnthat if Celtic etymology is madness, Pinkartonian etymology issuper-superlative madness. As a historian his powers areequally colossal and gigantic. He seats his beloved Gcths onthe throne of Nineveh exactly 344 years after the creation of theworld. Can Celtic madness produce any parallel to this ? HeIs indeed the very Don Quixotte of history. What a pity thatno coadjutor, no faithful Sancho, was found to second his Quixo^tic efforts.All historians who have preceded, or followed him,have studiously shunned the Pinkartonian path.Bat as I willimmediately have occasion to advert to his merits as a historian^I shall not enlarge farther at present.3 A