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was terrified in 111 Bc. by 300,000 Cimri and Gauls, whose chief told her “that what she had won by the sword she must hold by the sword.” These tribes pa ed through Upper Thrakia, and into Gaul, probably about 2000 B.c., and must have reached Britain by about 1500°3.c. In 503 a.c. the Irish Scots invaded Argyles hire under Fergus who settled at Kintyre, and his brother Angus who settled in Islay and Lorne. The region was soon known as Dal-riad a which (see Prof. Mac-Kinnon, Lect., Oct, 1897) dates back to Cairbre-Pighfada the “ tall king ” of the 2nd century A.c., before the Picts were driven from the firths of Clyde and Moray, and Kenneth became first king of Scotland. Dr Skene recognises Brythonic Kelts from Wales on the Clyde (see Arthur, and Columba) besides the Goidel Gaels, and Irish Scots. There was no distinction in custom or belief between these two great branches of the Keltic race. They adored sun, moon, and fire, sacred trees and stones, In Angle sea, and in parts of Derby shire, there is a stone shrine to every 8 or 9 square miles. The number known in Wales and Ireland is probably yet greater in any given area. The Keltic languages however are divided (see Britain) into the Goidel or K dialects (using kink for “five”), and the Brython or P dialects (in which pemp is five”), much as the Latins (who said quingue for five) are distinguished from the Greeks (among whom pente is “ five”), the rule running through many other original words of each dialect, as ken-ail “the head” in Gaelic for pen-guail as the same Roman wall was called (according to Bede in 700 a.c.) by the Picts, who preceded the Scots—Scath or Scoth “ warriors” (O’Davoren, Glo ary). The Greeks first heard of the Ka iteridx, or “ tin islands,” from the Cart hag in i ans, and from Herodotos, about 450 Bc. Aristotle in 345 B.c, mentions “Albion and Ierne lying beyond the Keltai,” by which he means Gaul. 408