with the wild _Picts_, who in _Alba_ and in _Galloway_ still maintained their independence, that they were like people of a different race. The one sect, though still savage and heathen, were as brave and fierce as ever; the other, though Christianized and civilized, were so degenerated from the vigour of the original stock that they were powerless to resist their more warlike kinsmen. =4. English Invasion.=--In the sixth century the _Angles_ came in great force and settled on the eastern coast of Valentia, and drove the _Britons_, or as they called them _Welshmen_, back to the Westland Hills. This district then between the Roman walls was thus divided between two kingdoms. The English kingdom of _Northumberland_, founded by _Ida_ in 547, took in all the eastern part of the country south of the _Forth_; while the Welsh kingdom, called _Strathclyde_ from the river that watered it, stretched from the _Firth of Clyde_ southwards towards the _Dee_. =5. The Scots.=--About the same time that the _English_ were pouring in on the east, the _Scots_ were settling all along the western coast. As the strait which separates _Britain_ from _Ireland_ is only twelve miles broad, the Scots could easily come over from _Scotia_, as _Ireland_ was formerly called, to seek their fortune in the larger island. It is impossible to fix the date of their first coming, but it was not till the beginning of the sixth century that there came over a swarm numerous and united enough to found a separate state. This is one of the few _Celtic_ migrations on record from west to east, and forms an exception to the general displacement that was going on, by which the _Celts_ were being driven further and further west before the _Teutons_. The leaders of the Scots were _Fergus MacErc_, and _Lorn_, of the family of the _Dalriads_, the ruling dynasty in the north of Ireland, and from them this new state founded on the western coast of what is now called _Argyle_ got the name of _Dalriada_.