Volume 5

AN   ACCOUNT
OF
NORTH-BRITAIN.
CHAP.   I.
Introductory Notices of its General State.
� I. Of the Progress of this Work.] IN the course of research, for illu-
minating the obscurity which has so long clouded the antiquities, and embar-
rassed the history of Scotland, I now persume to submit to the Public the
third volume of CALEDONIA.
� II. The various Topics of the First Volume.] The first volume professed
to discuss the more ancient Annals of North-Britain, in four Books, which
comprehended, in some detail, so many periods : I. The Roman period, which
treated of the Roman transactions in that country from the invasion of
Agricola, in 89 A.D., till the abdication of the Romans in 446, and which
closed with their residence in Northern Britain, II. The Pictish period
now began, and after a minute account of the North-British annals, ends at
length in 843 A.D., by the amalgamation of the Pictish people with the
Scottish intruders upon them. III. The Scottish period thereupon began with
that important event which conjoined both those celebrated people into one
state; and finally closed their distracted affairs in 1097 A.D., by the acces-