[323] Page [99]. See specially pp. 87-8 of the volume quoted (1885-86) of the Proc. of the Soc. of Antiq. of Scotland.
[324] Elton's "Origins," p. 169; quoted from Dion Cassius.
[325] Fuller, as quoted by Kingsley.
[326] Scots Magazine, 1823, Vol. 13, pp. 424-6.
[328] This is variously spelt "Aticam," "Styticam," and "Tithicam" (Petrie's Monumenta historica Britannica); and the solutions are as various as the spellings. If by "Tithicam vallem" is denoted the valley of the River Teith, this variant appears preferable to any; and the district referred to would be the whole of the Teith or Forth basin, which at that period was probably a mixture of land and water,—a northern Bedford Level, or fen-country.
[329] Gildas' "De Excidio Britanniæ," Stevenson's edition, London, 1838, pp. 24-25.
[330] Elton's "Origins," p. 169. The first sentence is from Herodian.
[331] This paper forms the last of "A Collection of such Papers as were communicated to the Royal Society, Referring to some Curiosities in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street, M, DCC, XXVI." (The "Collection" forms Part II. of "A Natural History of Ireland," issued from the same press.)
[332] Either this describes a slab which was subsequently destroyed or carried away, or it relates to the carved slab fixed in the ground below the doorway (as portrayed by Mr. Wakeman, at p. [121], ante).