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ah ulteriori Scotia usque cucurrit ille ad mortem—i. e. " He ran
from further Scotland, even to death." Mr. Pinkarton is gene,
rally very unfortunate in his quotations; and this very one has
completely ruined his cause. If there was a Scotia ulterior,
there must also have been a Scotia citerior, a hither Scotland ;
and the truth is, that the Dalriads, an Irish colony, settled in
Argyleshire about the middle of the third century, and were
called Hiberni, Irish. This circumstance gave rise to two Hi.
hernia (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
very properly denominates Ulterior and Citerior,
The claim of
the Irish is, in this case, of the very same nature with that aU
ready noticed respecting the poems of Ossian. The Irish claim
this colony, its martial exploits against the Romans, its name,
&c. because of its Irish origin ; and this circumstance has misled
many respectable writers. But, as I have already observed,
this contest is of ho importance tq the Scots, because it can he
satisfactorily established, even on the evidence of Pinkarton
himself, that Scotland was the parent, not only of Ireland, but
'
«f the very colony in question.
The Irish historians uniformly admit that the Tuatk de Danan
(race of the Danan or Damnii) migrated fiom Scotland to Ire.
land 1250 years before the Christian aera. That these Danan
were the Damnii of North Britain, has been generally allowed;
and even Pinkarton himself has, without reluctance, repeatedly
to it. These Damnii, according to Ptolemy, possessed
from Galloway to the Tay. Pinkarton himself adds Galloway
to their territories, and Richard of Cirencester adds Fife.
The
last mentioned author also places a tribe of the Damnii Albani
(Highland Damnii) in Argyleshire. Hence it is clear that the
Damnii possessed the west coast of Scotland throughout nearly
its whole extent. I have formerly remarked, that Alhani and
Meat