The Republic of Scotland

It is more fertile in livestock than in grain. It has rivers flowing down into the Irish Sea: the Urr, the Dee, the Ken, the Cree, and the Luce. It hardly rises into mountains anywhere, but swells only with frequent hills. In the valleys between them, standing water makes nearly countless lakes, from which, before the autumn equinox, the streams are increased by the first rains, from where an incredible multitude of eels descends, which the inhabitants, caught in wicker traps, salt down and make no small profit from it. The extremity of the side is the Mull of Galloway promontory, below which, at the mouth of the river Luce, is a bay which Ptolemy calls Rerigonius. And opposite flows in from the estuary of the Clyde a bay, commonly Lake Ryan, by Ptolemy, Vidogara: what runs forward of land between these bays, the inhabitants call the Rinns, that is, the edge of Galloway. From the same, the Mull is named from Nonantum, that is, a snout or mouth. But the whole region is called Galloway (for Gallovid in the language of the ancient Scots signifies a Gaul).

CAMD. Galloway, by the writers of the Middle Ages, in Latin Gallvvallia and Gallovidia, from the Irish, who once occupied it and call themselves Gael in their own language, the name having been formed by contraction.