At the same time there is a class of words in Gaelic which are derived directly from the Latin. These are such words as have been introduced into the service of the church. Christianity having come into Scotland from the European Continent, it was natural to suppose that with it terms familiar to ecclesiastics should find their way along with the religion. This would have occurred to a larger extent after the Roman hierarchy and worship had been received among the Scots. Such words as _Peacadh_, sin; _Sgriobtuir_, the scriptures; _Faosaid_, confession; _aoibhrinn_, mass or offering; _Caisg_, Easter; _Inid_, initium or shrove-tide; _Calainn_, new year’s day; _Nollaig_, Christmas; _Domhnach_, God or Dominus; _Diseart_, a hermitage; _Eaglais_, a church; _Sagart_, a priest; _Pearsa_ or _Pearsoin_, a parson; _Reilig_, a burying place, from _reliquiæ_; _Ifrionn_, hell; are all manifestly from the Latin, and a little care might add to this list. It is manifest that words which did not exist in the language must be borrowed from some source, and whence so naturally as from the language which was, in fact, the sacred tongue in the early church. But besides being a borrower, the Gaelic has been largely a contributor to other languages. What is usually called Scotch is perhaps the greatest debtor to the Gaelic tongue, retaining, as it does, numerous Gaelic words usually thought to be distinctive of itself. A list of these is not uninteresting, and the following is given as a contribution to the object:--Braw, from the Gaelic _Breagh_, pretty; Burn, from _Burn_, water; Airt, from _Airde_, a point of the compass; Baugh, from _Baoth_, empty; Kebbuck, from _Càbaig_, a cheese; Dour, from _Dùr_, hard; Fey, from _Fé_, a rod for measuring the dead; Teem, from _Taom_, to empty; Sicker, from _Shicker_, sure, retained in Manx; Leister, from _Lister_, a fishing spear, Manx; Chiel, from _Gille_, a lad; Skail, from _Sgaoil_, to disperse; Ingle, from _Aingeal_, fire; Arles, from _Earlas_, earnest; Sain, from _Sean_, to consecrate. This list, like the former, might be much increased, and shows how relics of the Gaelic language may be traced in the spoken tongue of the Scottish Lowlands after the language itself has retired. Just in like manner, but arising from a much closer relation, do relics of the Celtic languages appear in the Greek and Latin. The fact seems to be that a Celtic race and tongue did at one time occupy the whole of Southern Europe, spreading themselves from the Hellespont along the shores of the Adriatic, and the western curves of the Mediterranean, bounded on the north by the Danube and the Rhine, and extending to the western shores of Ireland. Of this ample evidence is to be found in the topography of the whole region; and the testimony of that topography is fully borne out by that of the whole class of languages still occupying the region, with the exception of the anomalous language of Biscay, and the Teutonic