It is so convenient to take Gaul next to the Spanish peninsula, Italy next to Gaul, and Greece next to Italy, that the necessity for breaking the continuity of the arrangement when we come to Albania must be avoided; and this is done by dealing with Albania at the very first, and getting its ethnology disposed of as a preliminary. It could not be taken in hand after that of Greece, for reasons which will appear when we come to that country. The native name of the Albanians is _Skipetar_, or _Mountaineer_, and this is of some importance; as will be seen in the sequel. The word _Albanian_ is, I think, Roman. _Arvanitæ_ is the form found in the Byzantine writers. This is converted by the Turks into _Arnaout_. It is unlucky that the word is one which appears elsewhere, _viz._, in Caucasus, where the ancient name of the modern province of Daghestan is called _Albania_ in the classical writers. So is Scotland; and so also part of England; _Albyn_ being the Gaelic name out of which our French neighbours get their _Albion perfide_, for the purposes of rhetoric and poetry. It cannot be denied that the occurrence of forms so similar is strange; and it is against the chances that it should be accidental. The explanation which suggests itself is as follows. Pliny mentions a people termed _Albanenses_, as one of the Liburnian tribes; whilst Ptolemy gives us a town called _Albanopolis_ in the _southern_ part of Illyricum. Now, as we know that the name is not native, as we seek for it in vain amongst the early Greek writers, and as the opposite coast of Italy was occupied by the Cisalpine and Cispadane Gauls, we have reasons for considering _Albyn_ as applied to Scotland, and _Albyn_ as applied to the mountainous country on the eastern side of the Adriatic and Ionian seas, to be one and the same word, referable to one and the same Keltic group of tongues. Hence, it contains the root _Alp=mountain_, and translates the native name _Skipetar=mountaineer_, &c. Like all such coincidences it has done mischief in the way of ethnology. Though few have derived the Skipetar from Scotland, many have done so from Caucasus--and that on the strength of the name. Yet it is as little native in the one locality as the other, since no nation of Daghestan calls itself _Albanian_, a fact which precludes all arguments in favour of a real community of origin from the similarity of name _in limine_; or rather a fact which ought to do so, for the Caucasian origin of the Skipetar still has its supporters.