Tartessiisque in terminos Oestrymnidem
Negotiandi mos erat.
[190]. Sed summum contra sacram cognomine, dicunt quam Caput Europae, sunt Stanni pondere plenae Hesperides: populus tenuit quas fortes Iberi.—Prisc. Per.
[191]. Cave Hunting, by W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., 1874, p. 191.
[192]. See The Beauties of the Boyne, by Sir William R. Wilde, 1850, p. 228, for an account of the Irish skulls.
[193]. Cave Hunting, p. 214. For the facts on which these conclusions are based, reference is made to this work and that of Sir William Wilde.
[194]. The author does not import anything from the Bards, as it is difficult to say how far they contain genuine tradition, or have been manipulated by Geoffrey of Monmouth. The author confines himself as much as possible to Welsh documents before his time, and the so-called Historical Triads he rejects as entirely spurious.
[195]. The Leabhar Gabhala, or Book of Conquests, is, strictly speaking, the work of Michael O’Clery, one of the compilers of the Annals of the Four Masters, but it is founded upon older documents, and upon a more ancient Book of Invasions, a fragment of which is contained in the Leabhar na Huidhri and the Book of Leinster, and complete editions in the Books of Ballimote and Leacan. A full account of it will be found in O’Curry’s Lectures on the MS. Materials, p. 168. It is much to be desired that this ancient tract should be published.
[196]. This account of these legendary colonies is abridged from Keating, who takes it from the Book of Conquests.
[197]. Chronicles of the Picts and Scots, p. 30.