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NOTES. 427ah uUeriorl Scotia usque cucurrit ille ad jnortem—i, e. ^' He ranfrom further Scotland, even to death." Mr. Pinkarton is generallyvery unfortunate ia his quotations; and this very one hascompletely ruined his cause. If there was a Scotia ulterior^there must also have been a Scotia citericr, a hither Scotland ;and the truth is, that the Dalriads, an Irish colony, settled iaArgyleshire about the middle cf the third century, and werecalled HiOerni, Irish. This circumstance gave rise to two Hi^hernice (Irelands), the one in Scotland, and the other in Ireland.But this colony soon received the name Scots (colonists or emigrants).This again gave rise to two Scotlands, which Bernard'sery properly denominates XJlierior and Citerior, The claim ofthe Irish is, in this case, of the very same nature with that alreadynoticed respecting the poems of Ossian. The Irish claimthis colony, its martial exploits against the Romans, its name,&c. because of its Irish origin ; and this circumstance has misledmany respectable writers. But, as I have already observed,this contest is of no importance to the Scots, "because it can besatisfactorily established, even on the evidence of Pinkartonhimself, that Scotland was the por^n^j not only of Ireland, but©f the very colony in question.The Irish historians uniformly admit that the Tuathde Danan(race of the Dacan or Damnii) migrated frcm Scotland to Ireland1250 years before the Christian asra, Tlsat these Da7ianwere the Damnii of North Britain, has been generally allowed ;and even Pinkarton himself has, without itluctance, repeatedlyacceded to it. These Damnii, according to Ptolemy, possessedfrom Galloway to the Tay. Pinkarton himself adds Gallowayto their territories, and Richard of Cirencester adds Fife. Thelastmentioned author also places a tribe of the Damnii Albam(Highland Damnii) in Argyleshire. Hence it is clear that theDamnii possessed the west coast of Scotland throughout nearlyits whole extent. I have formerly remarked, that Albaid ar^dMeatahim«;lf la obliged to admit that the Da?unii Atbani (vol.