[410] Historical Inquiries, p. 41.
[411] Biblo. Topog. Britan. vol. ii. p. 385.
[412] Caledonia Romana, p. 270. I am informed, however, by Sir George Clerk, Bart., of Penicuick, that the author of the Itinerarium Septentrionale was originally a teacher of music at Aberdeen, and according to the traditions of the Penicuick family, was usually known by the name of Galgacus, being no doubt apt to carry his enthusiasm for his favourite hero of Mons Grampius to an extent somewhat amusing, if not troublesome, to friends and patrons.
[413] Roy's Military Antiquities, p. 152.
[414] Caledonia Romana, p. 305.
[415] The preservation of this Scoto-Roman relic is due to the zeal of John Buchanan, Esq., its present possessor, who secured it after it had been in vain offered to the curators of the Hunterian Museum, as an appropriate addition to its Roman collection.
[416] Wordsworth.
[417] C. R. Smith, no mean authority on such a subject, defends the authenticity of Richard of Cirencester in his recent valuable work on "The Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lime," p. 177. The illustrations of our Northern itinera have led me to an opposite conclusion; but even should the genuineness of the "De Situ Britanniæ" be established, its value to Northern antiquaries must still be open to question.
[418] Roy's Military Antiquities, p. 116.
[419] Caledonia Romana, p. 150.