Chapter I

[Footnote 1: _Rhind Lectures_ 1883 and 1886, and see _The County of Caithness_, pp. 273-307.]

[Footnote 2: _Royal Commission 2nd Report, 1911_, and _3rd Report, 1911_; see also Laing and Huxley's _Prehistoric Remains of Caithness_, 1866.]

[Footnote 3: _Survivals in Belief among the Celts_, 1911.]

[Footnote 4: _Tacitus, Agricola_ 22-28.]

[Footnote 5: Coille-duine, or Kelyddon-ii.]

[Footnote 6: _H.B._, vol. i, p. 5.]

[Footnote 7: Anderson, _Scotland in Pagan Times_, p. 222. Two plates of brass found in Craig Carrill Broch. Copper 84%, tin 16%.]

[Footnote 8: See Laing and Huxley's _Prehistoric Remains in Caithness_, Laing ascribes a much greater antiquity to the _Burgs_, pp. 60-61. See Skene, _Chron. Picts and Scots_, pp. 157-160 as to a legend of their Scythian origin, and p. xcvi and p. 58.]

[Footnote 9: See Reeves' Life, and see _H.B._, vol. i, pp. 12-15; also Dr. Joseph Anderson's _Scotland in Early Christian Times_, 1879, p. 139.]

[Footnote 10: _H.B._, vol. i, pp. 10-17.]