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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...in Richards Roman map of Ireland, as a people occupying a considerable extent of country, may be fairly presumed to have been introduced on his own authority. A colony of these Scots, under the con which was expressly referred to in an ancient Irish poem on that battle. This inscription could be read five different ways, as this very ingenious gentleman has satisfactorily proved. See The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume I. Mr. Pinkerton, it is true, » from perusal of the Annals of Ulster," is " fully convinced that the names of not only the Irish monarchs but of most of the provincial kinglets, are Gothic" (Enquiry, II. 47). An opinion, to make use of his own words, "absolutely false, ignorant, and childish." (I. 163.) St PaUadius, according to Bede, was first sent by pope Celestin, in 431, to the Scots that believed in Christ. (B. I. c. 13.) He never mentions saint Patrick, who is supposed to have arrived thiiher in the same year. duct of Riada, or Reuda, is supposed, by Bede and others, to hare settled in the west part of Albany, or modern Scotland, at some uncertain period, probably in the 4th or 5th century; but being, it is Mr Pinkerton has placed the Scots in Britain A. C. 258, a fact for which he quotes Beda, L. 1, c 6, and O'Conor. Bede, however, says nothing, from which a settlement of that, or, indeed, any other specific period, can be inferred; and O'Conor is a weak and credulous writer, of no authority, in a matter of ancient history, nor is either Kennedy, or Toland, a whit better; for, although mr. Pinkerton pretends of the former that ' be generally quotes MS. page and column," the only one he actually cites is the book of Lccau, taken, it seems, out of the Ftaltcr of Cathel, a fabulous compil...