Caledonian : native of ancient Scotland. Caledonia is still used to mean all of Scotland.
... ence which are the heirlooms of their nation; men in short who give us England—and by England I mean the whole Anglo-Celtic race—on her really high and admirable side. Many of these are Irish or Caledonian; others are English gentlemen of good blood and position, trained at the great public schools, who still preserve that fine flavour of character, scholarship and power, which was once a common possession ...
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