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Rh civil and ecclesiastical annals of Scotland, perhaps too minutely, at the risk of wearying the reader with a twice-told tale; but his object has been to endeavour to indicate the causes which appear to have led to the gradual development of a fictitious scheme of history, and the extent to which the few and scattered facts contained in these meagre lists and annals can be used in reconstructing, at least in its leading features, the true history of that early period. WILLIAM F. SKENE.