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10 LECTURE I,
Munroes, Duffs, Farquliarsons, Forbeses, Eo-
bertsons, and numerous other clans, are un-
questionably Celtic, occurring, as most of their
names do, — as, for instance, the Munroes and
Forbeses, — in some of the earliest documents
connected with Irish history. But it is need-
less to specify any farther. We have had a
large admixture of foreign blood in the Scottish
Highlands ; while we are perfectly safe still in
speaking of the great mass of the inhabitants
as a Celtic race.
But let us now take a glance at our Anglo-
Saxon neighbours, from whom, of late years, we
have been called to listen to such loud claims
of superiority over their Celtic brethren . What
foundation there exists for these claims we
shall perhaps see ; but they have certainly been
stated often enough and loudly enough. Ee-
views, newspapers, popular lectures, all teem
mth the incomparable excellenciesof the Anglo-
Saxon ; and the Celt, who is favoured with this
peculiar self-laudation very much at his ex-
pense, while perhaps moved with a measure of
indignation, is almost stunned into acquies-
cence with what he finds is a very general and
popular belief. Nor is this confined to one side
of the Atlantic. America rings with the glory
of the Anglo-Saxon. In an article which lately