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THE HISTORIE OF SCOTLAND.
Diuisione of
the lies.
The He of
man.
Abirbroth, and Cuper, because nane wil excel Arbrothe
in jeirlie rent: and althocht Cuper be na compare to
Arbroth, 3it in monesteris of meane or midway rentis
it may haue the first place, of quhilke *afor we haue
maid mewtione. 5
OF THE ILES OF SCOTLAND,
AND FIRST OF THE WEST ISLES CALLED HEBRIDES
OR EUBONI/E.
t Quhen now we of a grosse maner haue sett doune
on baith the handes, the boundes of hail Scotland, we
sal do diligence to forme, and with a pinicill nocht
vnlyke, to drawe the lies lying thairto. Sum of the
lies ar called Hebrides | and vthir sum ar called 10
Orchades : Thir hebrides § ar situat Westirlie, toward
the cost of Irland, thir called orcades or of Orknay
Northerlie or eisterlie, of quhilkes sum monstruous gret
amang thame lyis to the coste of || Carrik and Galloway,
and with a long course evin to the Lemnos, and in the 15
entrie and mouth of Clide ar extendet. The first of the
lies toward the South is named the He of Man, in thir
our dayes vndir the dominione of Inglawd, quhilke
Csesar treulie testifies in mid course to be transported
* L. “sed de his hactenus”—so much for these matters.
+ L. “ adumbrata totius scotise continente, non dissimili penicillo
ipsi adjacentes insulas delineare conabimur ”—having sketched the
mainland of Scotland, we will now try with the same brush to paint
the adjacent islands.
J L. adds, “ seu Euboniae ”—otherwise the Eubonise.
§ L. “Illae partim in mari Vergivo seu Hibernico, partim in
Deucaledonico septentrionem versus, sitae sunt ”—The former (the
Hebrides) are situated partly in the Vergivian or Irish Sea, partly in
the Deucaledonian.
The name of Deucaledonian was given by Ptolemy to the Western
Sea between the Mull of Galloway and Dunnet Plead.—Skene,
Celtic Scotland, i. Ixx.
II L. “Syluria.”