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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