------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are preceded by ‘^’, and if there are multiple characters they are contained by ‘{ }’. Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapter in which they are referenced. Footnotes were numbered beginning afresh with each chapter. They have been resequenced across the entire text for uniqueness. On occasion, notes are referred to in other notes by number. These references have been changed as well. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. CELTIC SCOTLAND ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable_, FOR DAVID DOUGLAS, EDINBURGH LONDON HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND BOWES. GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CELTIC SCOTLAND: A HISTORY OF =Ancient Alban= BY WILLIAM F. SKENE, D.C.L., LL.D. HISTORIOGRAPHER-ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND. VOLUME I. HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY. _SECOND EDITION._ EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 1886 _All Rights reserved_ PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The first volume of _Celtic Scotland_ being out of print, the Author has very carefully revised the text, with a view to a new edition; but he has, after mature consideration, found nothing to alter in the views of early Scottish history expressed in it. He has therefore confined himself to correcting obvious mistakes and misprints, and, with these exceptions, this edition is substantially a reprint. EDINBURGH, 27 INVERLEITH ROW, _4th September 1886_. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Each volume of this work may be regarded as complete in itself so far as the object of the volume is concerned, and will be issued separately.