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HISTORY OF SCOTLAND
CONTENTS OF FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
The Roman Period.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF SCOTLAND IN HISTORY-THE INVASION BY
AGRICOLA-THE BATTLE OF THE GRAMPIANS-USELESS SEARCH
AFTER MONS GRAMPIUS-QUESTION IF THIS WAS THE REAL
NAME OTHER DIFFICULTIES IN ROMAN TOPOGRAPHY-GUESSES
AND FORGERIES-THE NAME CALEDONIA-HADRIAN AND THE
GREAT WALL-NATURE AND PURPOSES OF THE WALL-AN-
TONINE, LOLLIUS URBICUS, AND THE NORTHERN WALL-HIS-
TORY OF ITS CONSTRUCTION-FEATS AND CHARACTER OF MAR-
CELLUS ULPIUS AUTHORITIES ON THE HISTORY OF THE
ROMANS IN SCOTLAND-CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE GIVEN BY
THEM-LUPUS-MARCH OF SEVERUS-CARAUSIUS-CONSTAN-
TIUS BEGINNING OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY— QUESTION
HOW FAR SCOTLAND CHRISTIANISED UNDER THE ROMANS-
FALL OF THEIR POWER-ATTACKS ON THE EMPIRE BY THE
NORTHERN TRIBES,
PAGE
1-46
CHAPTER II.
(Continued.)
VESTIGES OF THE EMPIRE: POPULAR RESPECT FOR THEM-RELICS
OF ART AND REFINEMENT-RELICS OF DOMESTIC LUXURY-
ARTHUR'S OON-A ROMAN TOWN IN SCOTLAND-MONEY-
ROMAN
TOPOGRAPHY
-
RICHARD OF CIRENCESTER ROMAN
WARFARE-THE STRUGGLE WITH THE NATIVES-NATURE OF
ROMAN ANNEXATION-QUESTION AS TO VESTIGES OF CHRISTI-
ANITY-LEGENDS-ST PATRICK-ROMAN CAMPS: THEIR ABUN-
DANCE IN SCOTLAND-THE SEASONS-ROMAN ENCAMPING-
ROMAN ROADS,
47-82
CHAPTER III.
The Unrecorded Ages.
REASONS FOR PLACING THIS BETWEEN THE ROMAN PART AND THE
CONTINUATION-PREHISTORIC VESTIGES-HOW THEY SUPER-
SEDE THE FABULOUS HISTORIES-THE GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
IN WHICH THEY ARE FOUND REASON WHY SCOTLAND IS
PECULIARLY RICH IN ANCIENT REMAINS-ANCIENT FORTRESSES
-THE CATERTHUNS-DUNSINNANE HILL-OTHER INSTANCES-
THE VITRIFIED FORTS-LAKE DWELLINGS AND STRENGTHS-
THE CATRAIL-THE DANISH DUNES-MYSTERIOUS HILL-WORKS
-TAPUC OF TORWOOD-THE LAWS-PICTS' HOUSES AND OTHER
UNDERGROUND BUILDINGS-ARTIFICIAL CAVES—CAIRNS, CHAM-
BERED AND UNCHAMBERED-MAES-HOWE - DISPOSAL OF THE
DEAD-URNS AND BURNING-WEAPONS, STONE AND METALLIC
-DEFENSIVE ARMOUR- QUESTION OF THE STONE, BRONZE,
AND IRON AGES-DECORATIONS-INFERENCES AS TO ART AND
CIVILISATION, 83-138
CHAPTER IV.
OBJECTS SUPPOSED TO BE CONNECTED WITH RELIGION-STONE
CIRCLES OTHER UNTOOLED MONUMENTS-VASTNESS OF THE
FIELD OF THE UNKNOWN AND CONJECTURAL-NARROWNESS OF
THE KNOWN-DISCONNECTION OF THE UNWORKED WITH THE
SCULPTURED STONES-THE SCULPTURES OF THE EAST AND OF
THE WEST COAST-NATURE OF THE SEVERAL KINDS OF SCULP-
TURE-THEIR MYSTERIOUSNESS-SOLUTIONS OFFERED FROM
AFAR OTHERS NEARER HOME-CHARACTERISTICS AS A SCHOOL
OF DECORATIVE ART-PROGRESS IN ENGLAND-WIDER DIFFU-
SION IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND-PASSES INTO
THE ILLUMINATION OF MSS.-EXAMINED BY GERMAN CRITICS
AS A SCOTTISH SCHOOL OF DECORATIVE ART,
139-172
CHAPTER V.
The Early Races.
THE ROMANISED INHABITANTS—THEIR DEGENERACY-THEIR DIS-
APPEARANCE FROM HISTORY-AURELIANUS AMBROSIUS-THE
ROMANCES OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS-THEIR CON-
NECTION WITH SCOTLAND INCOMPATIBILITY OF THEIR CHIVAL-
ROUS SPIRIT WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THE PERIOD THE
OSSIANIC LITERATURE-BRITONS OF STRATHCLYDE THE PICTS
-THE GREAT PICTISH QUESTION—ETYMOLOGICAL WAR-SPECI-
MENS OF THE VICTORIES ON EITHER SIDE-WHAT THEY HAVE
GAINED WHAT IS TAUGHT BY ANCIENT REMAINS WHAT WE
GATHER FROM CLASSIC AUTHORS-WEAKNESS OF THEIR CON-
TRIBUTIONS TO THE SOLUTION-THE PAINTED RACES EARLY
INFLUENCE OF TEUTONIC RACES-THE SCOTS-ORIGINALLY A
NAME FOR NATIVES OF IRELAND-CAME OVER IN COLONIES-
NECESSITY FOR REMEMBERING THE EARLY MEANING OF THE
WORD, AND THE TIME WHEN IT WAS TRANSFERRED TO SCOT-
LAND THEIR HIGHER CIVILISATION AND INFLUENCE OVER
OTHER RACES, 173-216
CHAPTER VI.
Heathendom.
DRUIDISM THE POPULAR SOLVER OF DIFFICULTIES
THE
INQUIRY HOW
FAR IT EXISTED AND HAD INFLUENCE-THE BRIEFNESS AND
UNCERTAINTY OF CÆSAR'S ACCOUNT-THE IMPORTANCE ATTRI-
BUTED TO IT-FAINTNESS OF OTHER ANCIENT REFERENCES-
NECESSITY OF HELPING THEM BY MODERN IMAGINATION-UN-
KNOWN AS OPPONENTS TO THE EARLY SAINTS AND CHRISTIAN
MISSIONARIES THE MAGI AS ENCOUNTERED BY THESE
MAGI IN SCOTLAND-DOMESTIC REVELATIONS ABOUT ONE OF
THEM-HOW FAR THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE NORSE EDDAS PRE-
VAILED IN SCOTLAND-ITS SPIRIT AS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE
PEOPLE-PREVALENCE OF MANHOOD OVER CUNNING-ABSENCE
OF THE IMPURITIES INCIDENT TO OTHER PAGAN SYSTEMS-ITS
DOMESTICITY-ITS ADAPTATION TO THE PHYSICAL AS WELL AS
THE MORAL CONDITIONS OF THE NORTHERN NATIONS-INCOM-
PATIBILITY WITH CLASSICAL AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS,
217-246