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_Gaoll_, stranger, is used in Erse to denote a foreign settler, _e.g._ the Earl of Caithness is Morphear (pronounced _Morar_) _Gaoll_, the stranger great man; being lord of a corner of the land inhabited by a foreign race.
Galloway, on the other hand, takes its name from the _Gael_, being possessed by a colony of that people from Kintyre, &c., who long retained the name of the wild _Scots_[5] of Galloway, to distinguish them from the Brets or British inhabitants of the rest of the border.
FRANCIS JOHN SCOTT, M.A.
Holy Trinity, Tewkesbury.
[Footnote 5: Scot or Scott is applied only to the men of Gaelic extraction in our old records.]
_Brydone the Tourist's Birth-place_ (Vol. vii., p. 108.).--According to Chambers's _Lives of Scotsmen_, vol. i. p. 384., 1832, Brydone was the son of a clergyman in the neighbourhood of Dumbarton, where he was born in the year 1741. When he came to England, he was engaged as travelling preceptor by Mr. Beckford, to whom his _Tour through Sicily and Malta_ is addressed. In a copy of this work, now before me, I find the following remarks written in pencil:
"These travels are written in a very plausible style, but little dependence is to be placed upon their veracity. Brydone never was on the summit of Ætna, although he describes the prospect from it in such glowing colours."
It is right to add, that the writer of these remarks was long a resident in Italy, and in constant habits of intercourse with the most distinguished scholars of that country.
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