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CHAPTER III. I Have already told you that the Scots came from
Ireland, and originally from the western part of South Britain.
Ireland (or Hibernia, as it was anciently called) was, at a very
early period peopled by settlers from British shores, and from
their wandering across the channel to find a new home, they were
called Sceite, an Irish word for dispersed or scattered, and not
long after the inhabitants of Ireland were known by the name of
Scots. About the year 503 the Scots made their first settlement in
Caledonia in the Mull of Cantire. The chiefs of the new colonists
were the three sons of an Irish king, and to Fergus, one of the
three, the Scottish people proudly trace their royal pedigree,
considering him as the founder of their monarchy. His power atfirst
was small, his followers few, and his territory extended no farther
than the peninsula wherein he had landed. By degrees all these
increased, and though the twenty-nine kings that succeeded him were
not famed for any particular exploits or great virtues, yet, at the
close of their reigns, the Scots had gained so much power and
ascendancy in Caledonia as to aim at overthrowing the Pictish
kingdom, in which they at last, as you have heard, succeeded. In
843 Kenneth Mac Alpin, king of the Scots in their own nook of the
island, " broke the bounds of his ancient" dominions, and, by a
decisive battle over the Picts, added that kingdom to his former
possessions, and, with the victory, took the title of king of
Scotland. From this period, till its union with England in 1603,
Scotland was governed by one king." " I am glad we are come to the
real reigns of the Scottish kings," said Jane; " I long to hear
about the brave Bruce and Sir William Wallace, too." " But before
you begin about them, Mamma," said Arthur, " do tel...
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