See Skene, _Chron. Picts and Scots_, pp. 157-160 as to a
legend of their Scythian origin, and p. xcvi and p. 58.]
[Footnote 9: See Reeves' Life, and see _H.B._, vol. i, pp. 12-15; also
Dr. Joseph Anderson's _Scotland in Early Christian Times_, 1879, p.
139.]
[Footnote 10: _H.B._, vol. i, pp. 10-17.]
CHAPTER II.
[Footnote 1: See MacBain's note at p. 157 of Skene's _Highlanders of
Scotland_.]
[Footnote 2: For the boundaries of Sutherland, see Sir R. Gordon's
_Genealogie of the Earles_, pp. i and 2, and map hereto.]
[Footnote 3: In Ness the subjacent stone is too near the surface to
have ever admitted of the growth of large trees.]
[Footnote 4: Scrope, _Days of Deerstalking_, 3rd edit., pp. 374-377.]
[Footnote 5: Curie's _Inventories of Monuments, &c._, 1911 (Caithness)
1911 (Sutherland), and see his maps. Why are there no brochs in Moray,
Aberdeenshire and the Mearns? Did the Picts come there from the west
and south-west coast after the age of broch-building, driven before
the Scots, first eastward, then north into the Grampians?]
[Footnote 6: For example in Loch Naver.]
[Footnote 7: Anderson's _Scotland in Pagan Times_, pp.
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