t fish are destined to prosper in
Hibernia: of the ancient deer, more hereafter. The goats still nourish
also, as visitors to Killarney can testify; though they will probably
soon be relics of the past, as the goatherds are emigrating to more
prosperous regions at a rapid rate.

[67] _Monarchs_.--See Bunsen's _Egypt, passim_.

[68] _Writers_.--The first ten books of Livy are extant, and bring Roman
history to the consulship of Julius Maximus Gurges and Junius Brutus
Scoene, in 292 B.C. Dionysius published his history seven years before
Christ. Five of Plutarch's Lives fall within the period before the war
with Pyrrhus. There are many sources besides those of the works of
historians from which general information is obtained.

[69] _Niebuhr_.--"Genuine or oral tradition has kept the story of
Tarpeia for _five-and-twenty hundred years_ in the mouths of the common
people, who for many centuries have been total strangers to the names of
Cloelia and Cornelia."--_Hist_. vol. i. p. 230.

[70] _Event.--Credibility of Early Roman History_, vol. i. p. 101.

[71] _Libri lintei_.--Registers written on linen, mentioned by Livy,
under the year 444 B.C.

[72] _Nail_.--Livy quotes Cincius for the fact that a series of nails
were extant in the temple of Hostia, at Volsinii, as a register of
successive years. Quite as primitive an arrangement as the North
American _quipus_.

[73] _Seanchaidhe_ (pronounced "shanachy").--It means, in this case,
strictly a historian; but the ancient historian was also a bard or poet.

[74] _Privileges_.--We can scarcely help requesting the special
attention of the reader to these well-authenticated facts. A nation
which had so high an appreciation of its annals, must have been many
degrees removed from barbarism for centuries.

[75] _Before_.--O'Curry, p. 240.

[76] _Before_.--This, of course, opens up the question as to whether the
Irish Celts had a written literature before the arrival of St. Patrick.
The subject will be fully entertained later on.

[77] _Genealogies_.-There is a "distinction and a difference" between a
genealogy and a pedigree. A genealogy embraces the descent of a family,
and its relation to all the other families that descended from the same
remote parent stock, and took a distinct tribe-name, as the Dalcassians.
A pedigree traces up the line of descent to the individual from whom the
name was derived.

[78] _Events_.--Arnold mentions "the _family traditions_ and funeral