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 orations out of which the oldest annalists [of Roman history] compiled their narratives." vol.i.p.