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3o6 'The extent of the Dominions
Cantyre, Knapdale, Argyle, Braidalbain, and
fome of» the Weftern Iflands. Cambden believed
too precipitately, that lona was made over to Co-
lumba by Brudius, King of the Pids.
Adamnan, who wrote the hiftory of the hfe of
Columba, and was himfelf abbot of lona, relates,
that the faint was coiirteoufly received by Cona',
King of the Scots. As Adamnan has been very mi-
nute in his hiftory, it is far from being probable
that he would forget Brudius, had he given fuch a
benefadion to Columba.
The author of the Critical EfTay is more liberal
to the Scots than Cambden and Ufher, and extends
their ancient territories to a branch of the Gram-
pian mountain which runs all the way from Athol
to the fea coaft of Knodort*. But as he had very
juftly expofed the miftake of Bede with regard to
lona, and as it does not appear from any other
author, that either Brudius or any other Pidifh
King pofTefTed a foot of ground from the Glotta
to the Tarvifium of the ancients, he might have
given all the North-weft coaft, from Clyde to
Dunft)yhead, as alfo the Cathanefia of his anony-
mous author, to the kingdom of Arreghael.
The Galic name Arreghael^ or rather Jar-
ghael t, was, in the Latin of later ages, changed
into Ergadia : and it appears from a charter grant-
ed by the Earl of Rofs, and confirmed by Robert
the Second of Scotland, that Garloeh, a diftridt
which lies at a confiderabk diftance from Knodort,
to the North, was a part of Ergadia X. It is like-
* Near the Ifle of Sky in Invernefs-fhire-
t See a note on the word jar- ghael, page 16.
X ConSrmatio donatonis Comitis Roifiae Paullo Mactyre de
terra de Gerloch, anno fecundo Roberci II.
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