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 4*4 THE HISTORY «. Boekf. liana, as they were in the third and Fourth centuries equally with, the other Caledonians without the pale of the Roman em- fire : See b. II. c, i. Such of the Caledonians as we now call Highlanders -{till denominate themfelves by the equivalent ap- •pellation of Al-ban-ich, the inhabitants of the-Alb»an or Hills. The whole body of the Caledonians, was alfix denominated Cruithnich (Baxter, and Macpherfon's pref. to vol. ii.p* v.). And this name has been generally derived from Craith, a cut or wound, the Pi&s making little ihcifious in their bodies m order to imprefs the painting, Ferro Pi&a genas (Chudian). This name has been recently interpreted, to fignify the Eaters of corn or wheat, the Pi&s being ftrangely fuppofed-to live only along the eaftern coaift of Scotland, and to be «drft inguifhed from the other Caledonians by the knowledge of Agriculture (Mao pherfbn, ditto)* Both etymologies are obvioirfty dbfcrd. The provincials (as I have {hewn c. vii. £5} equally painted their bodies as the Fids. And theQPids a&ually lived on the weftern and nor- thern as well as on the eaftern coaft. And* whatever- is- the etyinoa of the name, the appellation wa6 certainly not peculiar to the Caledonians. 'One of the Irifli tribes was fometimfcs denominated Cmtheni, Crutheii making Cmthen-ieh as Gael is lengthened into Gaelich aiid Erin irito Eirinach (Carte p. iflty Arid in Patrieii Opufcula a Warseo, Londini 16565 their country is faid to be in the northern parts of Ulfter (p. 1 1 4). The name is obviouffy nothing more than Cruth-en-i or the Harpers, a name by which all the Irifli have been diftinguHhed in the. title of (iitharaedi, the harp having been as much the national 1 inftrument of ma- fic to all die Britons as it is the national eniign of the trifti at prefent. — - * Agric V* c. 24, £5, 26 and 19: — " Offian V. ii. p/ 194. ♦—"Richard's Itinerary.— 61 Ibid; Fingal -was the great grandfon of this Pendragon by Trathal and Coftihal, and, when he was yet young,oppofed'Caracalla in an (p. A 7. V; i.). AHow-i ing therefore 20 years f>r thereabouts to Fingai, and 50 to Comhal and as many to Trathal, we come very near to the only period of the fewnd century, in winch the jtrtfigers or Romans invaded