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—428 NOTES.2. p. 72 ) formed at least a part of the Dalriadic colony; atidagain (v. 2. p. 234.) admits that Scoti and Albani were synoniniGuswith writers of the eleventii, twelfth, and thirteenth century.IJoveden (quoted by Pinkarton, t. 2. p. 235.) has thefollowing remarkable passage, when describing the war of thestaBdard in 1138 Excla?navitque simul exercitus Scoitorummsigne patriitm; et asceniUt clamor usque in coelum, Albani!AlbarA!— i. e. " and the army of the Scots, with one Tolce, vociferatedtheir native distinction, and the shout of Albani! AUhani! (Highlanders! Highlanders!) ascended even to tlie heavens."From this remarkable passage we learn that Albaniwas the native badge or distinction of the Scots. To this it ison]y necessary to add that the Diian Albanack uniformly callsthe Bairiadlc colony AJbanach^ and their country Alba. NslvPinkarton himself says (v. 1. p. 224.) that the Damnii Albaniand Atiacotti were the first Scots from Ireland, and arrived inArgyle about the year' 258. Having thus identified the DamniiAlbani, Dalriadi, and Scots, the result clearly is, that a colonyof the Damnii migrated from North^kitaln to Ireland 1250years (as the Irish historians themselves declare) before cur Kra,and that a tribe of the same Damnii returned to Argyleshireabout the middle of the third century. It is here particularly•worthy of remark, that though 1500 years had intervened fromthe migration of the Damnii to Ireland, till their return to Argyleshireabout the year 258, they had inflexibly retained theirname, viz. Damnii Albani; and though Damnii is now omitted,they retain the name Albanach, even to the present hour. Neitherthe Irish nor Mr. Pinkarton have much reason, therefore,to pique themselves on the Irish Dalriadic colony, because itcan be proved to demonstration, even from their own arguments,that the ancestors of this colony emigrated from North Britainto Ireland. But the most unaccountable conceit of all is, thatPinkarton should insist that the name Scot originated in Ireland,whilst, in fact, they have no such name in their language, neitherhave the Scots themselves any such name in their dialect of theCeltic, In both languages the word used for Scot is uniformly