[Footnote 59: Asleifarvik (_orig._). Fl. MS., Hals-eyiar-vic.] [Footnote 60: _i.e._ The old woman's rock. _Cailleach_ in Irish, and _kerling_ in Icelandic signify an old woman.] [Footnote 61: _i.e._ The promontory. This island was so called because, from its propinquity to the opposite shore, it appeared like a cape. The old Venetian edition of Pliny has "Mella xxv mill. pass. amplior proditur;" in the other copies it is "Reliquarum nulla" &c. Hence the true reading appears to be Reliquarum Mulla &c.] [Footnote 62: Ken-tir, _i.e._ the promontory, a Peninsula in Scotland, Kintire.] [Footnote 63: _i.e._ God's-Island. I take this to be Giga, or, as Fordon calls it, Gia, compounded of the Gaelic _Dhia_, God, and the Islandic _ey_, an island.] [Footnote 64: Who this Margad was does not appear from history, I believe.] [Footnote 65: Angus, Lord of Kintire and Ila, was grandson & heir of Reginald king of the isles. His posterity succeeded to the county of Ross, & John, the second Earl, A.D. 1449, gave to his Brother Hugh the Barony of Slate &c. Lord McDonald Baron of Slate, is the direct male representative of Reginald.] [Footnote 66: _i.e._, rings or bracelets.] [Footnote 67: _i.e._, ships.] [Footnote 68: _i.e._ the sea.] [Footnote 69: A celebrated adventurer or sea king.] [Footnote 70: Rudri or Ruari is the Irish abbreviation of Roderic. The person here meant is, no doubt, the second son of King Reginald, & the same who in a donation to the abbey of Sandale, is stiled Rodericus de Kintire filius Reginaldi. This Roderic, it seems, besides Allan & Dougal, had another son Angus McRorie, Lord of Bute, whose daughter and heiress Jean was married to Alexander sixth Lord High Steward, Grand father to Robert II. King of Scotland. Robert, A.D. 1400., gave Bute to his son John from whom the present family of Bute is lineally descended.] [Footnote 71: _i.e._ the Scotch.] [Footnote 72: _i.e._ the Scotch.] [Footnote 73: _i.e._ sea.] [Footnote 74: _i.e._ ships.] [Footnote 75: Irar. (_orig._), _i.e._ Irish. As the native Irish had suffer'd so much from the Scandinavians it is improbable they would apply for assistance to the _Siol Lochlin na beum_. We may therefore reasonably conclude that the People here mentioned were the descendants of those Norwegians or Ostmen, who long inhabited the eastern coast of Ireland and founded some of its best towns. A. D. 1201 those Ostmen or Easterlings were still so considerable that, at a recognition taken of the diocese of Limerick, the arbitrators consisted of 12 English, 12 Irish, & 12 Ostmen. Edw. I. gave Gilchrist, William, & John Gilmorys, with other Ostmen in the County of Waterford, peculiar privileges; &, by the rolls of Edw. II. they evidently subsisted, as a distinct people, during the reign of that prince.] [Footnote 76: Kumr-eyiar (_orig._), _i.e._ the Islands of the Cumbrians, two small islands to the West of Scotland.]