VI.
The Gaelic branch of the Keltic stock may have been developed in either the British Isles or on the continent.—([Chapter V].)
The following list of words in Professor Newman's Regal Rome, shewing that a remarkable class of words in Latin were Keltic rather than native and Gaelic rather than Welsh, and which was unpublished when the fifth chapter was written, favours the doctrine of the Gaels having been continental as well as insular to an extent for which I was previously unprepared:—
| ENGLISH. | LATIN. | GAELIC. |
| Arms | arma | arm. |
| Weapon | telum | tailm. |
| Helmet | galea | galia. |
| Shield | scutum | sgiath. |
| Arrow | sagitta | saighead. |
| Coat of Mail | lorica | liureach. |
| Spoils | spolia | spuill. |
| Necklace | monile | fail-muineil. |
| Point | cuspis | cusp. |
| Spear | quiris[25] | coir. |
It also favours Lhuyd's hypothesis rather than the Hibernian. (See pp. [88-89].)
VII.
The earliest ethnology of Scotland was that the earliest Britons, i.e., either British as opposed to Gaelic, or Gaelic which, subsequently, became as British as South Britain itself.
This means that the present Gaels were not aboriginal to the Scotch Highlands, except in the sense that they were aboriginal to Kent or Wales. (See pp. [88-89].)