ges that supplied the coincidence was the Latin--_mare
mort-uum_.

Another such a tongue was the Slavonic; and to that tongue I imagine
_Morimarusa_ to be referrible. I also imagine that by the _Cimbri_ of
Pliny were meant the _Cimmerii_; so that the Sea of Azof was the true
Dead Sea; or, perhaps, the Propontis; in which case its present name,
the _Sea of Marmora_, is explained.

The name of the Province, _Ar-mor-ica_, means the _country on the sea_,
and if rendered in Latin would be _ad mare_. _Ar-gail_ is such another
word; and it was the name of the landing-place of the _Gael_=_ad
Gallos_.

To the Gaelic _Ar-mor-ica_, the Slavonians have an exact parallel in the
word _Po-mor-ania_; where _po_ means _on_, and _mor_ the _sea_.

CHAPTER IV.

THE PICTS.--LIST OF KINGS.--PENN FAHEL.--ABER AND INVER.--THE PICTS
PROBABLY, BUT NOT CERTAINLY, BRITONS.

The Picts have never been considered Romans; but, with that exception, a
relationship with every population of the British Isles has been claimed
for them. As Germans on the strength of Tacitus' description of their
physical conformation of the Caledonian, and as Germans on the strength
of the supposed Germanic origin of the Belgae, the Picts have been held
the ancestors of the present Lowland Scotch. They have been considered
Scandinavians also. On the other hand, they have been made Gaels, in
which case it is the Highlanders who are their offspring. They have been
considered Britons, and they have been considered a separate stock.

That they were Kelts rather than Germans is the commonest doctrine, and
that they were Britons rather than Gaels is a common one; the arguments
that prove the latter proving the first _a fortiori_.

We approach the subject with a notice of the Irish missionary St.
Columbanus, whose native tongue was, of course, the Irish Gaelic. This
was unintelligible to the Northern Picts, as is expressly stated on in
Adammanus:--"Alio in tempore quo Sanctus Columba in Pictorum provincia
per aliquot demorabatur dies, quidam cum tota plebeius familia, verbum
_vitae_ per interpretatorem, _Sancto praedicante viro_, audiens credidit,
credensque baptizatus est."--_Adamn. ap. Colganum._ l. ii. c. 32.

This, however, only shews that the Pict was not exactly and absolutely
Irish. It might have approached it. It might also be far more unlike
than the Welsh was.

A document known as the Colbertine MS., from being published from the
Colbertine Li