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CELTIC SCOTLAND

Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable,

FOR

DAVID DOUGLAS, EDINBURGH

LONDONHAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.
CAMBRIDGEMACMILLAN AND BOWES.
GLASGOWJAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS

CELTIC SCOTLAND:
A HISTORY OF
Ancient Alban

BY

WILLIAM F. SKENE, D.C.L., LL.D.

HISTORIOGRAPHER-ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND.

Volume I.

HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY.

SECOND EDITION.

EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS

1886

All Rights reserved

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

The first volume of Celtic Scotland being out of print, the Author has very carefully revised the text, with a view to a new edition; but he has, after mature consideration, found nothing to alter in the views of early Scottish history expressed in it. He has therefore confined himself to correcting obvious mistakes and misprints, and, with these exceptions, this edition is substantially a reprint.

Edinburgh, 27 Inverleith Row,

4th September 1886.