------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ‘{ }’. There is a several instances of ‘m’ with a macron, which appears here as ‘m̄’. 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 cross-referenced by number. These references have been changed as well. In Appendix II (pp. 410-427), a lengthy poem is presented with the Gaelic and the English translations on facing pages, so that the reader may readily compare them. They are too wide to give column-wise here. To honor the intent of the author, this section has been reorganized to give each verse and its translation together, the English following the Gaelic in staggered fashion. On the last page of each version, (pp. 426-427), there is, on each page, a _Notes_ section at the bottom. These have been combined to follow the last of the passages. 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 _Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable_ FOR DAVID DOUGLAS. LONDON SIMPKIN, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO., LIM. CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND BOWES. GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: SCOTLAND with the ANCIENT DIVISIONS Of THE LAND. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CELTIC SCOTLAND: A HISTORY OF =Ancient Alban= BY WILLIAM F. SKENE, D.C.L., LL.D. HISTORIOGRAPHER-ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND. VOLUME III. LAND AND PEOPLE. _SECOND EDITION_. EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS 1890 _All Rights reserved_ PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.