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tioned by Cajsar !s Liscus, the chief magistrate of the iEdui,
who, on the testimony of all authors, antient and modern, (not
excepting Pinkarton himself,) were Celts proper. The man
who can thus deliberately
violate truth, insult common sense,
and contradict himself, as well as all authors who have mentioned
the ^dui, deserves pity rather than reprehension.
Vergobretus, he derives from Vergen, to render justice, and
Obrest, first or chief. Virgin.Abreast, (Virgo Obversata)
would have been fully as much to the purpose.
Vercingeiorix,
and Veremund, he derives from the Anglo.Belgic fVer, a man.
The Roman Vir sine gutture (a man without a throat,) and Vir
mundus, (a well-dressed man,) would have been sterling in com.
parison of this. He derives G(dcacus, from the Gothic Galisan,
to collect. Strange ! passing strange ! that he did not derive it
from the Greek Galaxy, or make it an abbreviation of GilKga.
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The Grampian Hills, (Mons Graropins of Tacitus,) he derives
from the Danish Gram, a warrior.
Considering the bleak
heathy appearance of these hills, our vulgar phrase, Grim-Puss,
(a black cat,) would have been infinitely more appropriate,
Rins, a range of hills in Galloway, he supposes, are derived from
the runes, a sort
the 12th century.
of rude alphabet used in Denmark so late as
They are commonly called the Helsing runes.
This is the very ne plus ultra of etymology, for the Gallovidian
hills, certainly bear an unequivocal resemblance to the Runic aU
phabet. He derives Alpin from Alp, a devil. This is a stroke
of admirable retaliation, on Alpin, for the signal defeat he gave
Vin^SLrioa's /avouriie Picts at Reslennet.
could do less, than dubb him a devil.
It was impossible he
Having given the reader a short specimen of immaculate Pin.
kartonian etymology, I shall next give a list of Gothic foreign
names, which he considers as synonimous with, or bearing a
strong affinity to names in Scotland, i)/?oi and Mouse; Hoop
and Hope; Struer and Anstruther;
Fariltosta and Fairntosh;
Gamel and Campbell; jGalstcde and Gala; Ellum and Elvon.
foot; Mclderup sMd Meldrum ; J esterup vinA Yester ; Kulundt
and Calkadar ; JVedehpang and JVeddel; Dallroth and RoUisat/;