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yb THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

P. 38. " Alba or Albin, <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> [by]<br />

"^ which <strong>the</strong> ancient Scots, in <strong>the</strong>ir native hn^<br />

" guage, have, from all antiqnit)^, diflinguifned<br />

*' <strong>the</strong>ir own divilion <strong>of</strong> Britain, fecms to be <strong>the</strong><br />

*' fountain from which <strong>the</strong> Greeks deduced <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

" Albion. It was natural for <strong>the</strong> Gael, who<br />

" tranfmigrated from <strong>the</strong> low plains <strong>of</strong> Belgium,<br />

" to call <strong>the</strong> more elevated land <strong>of</strong> Britain by a<br />

" name expreffive <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> country.<br />

" Alb or. Alp, in <strong>the</strong> Celtic, fignifies High, and<br />

•" In, invariably, a country."<br />

That <strong>the</strong> Gael tranfmigrated from <strong>the</strong> low<br />

plains <strong>of</strong> Belgium, is a mere aflertion without<br />

authority ; as <strong>the</strong> ufe <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> word Belgium here<br />

is abfolutely equivocal. According to <strong>Mr</strong>. Mac-<br />

'pherfon himfelf, <strong>the</strong>y came not from Belgium,<br />

moderniy fo called, or Holland, but from <strong>the</strong><br />

'^ Belgic divifion <strong>of</strong> Gaul %" which reached from<br />

<strong>the</strong> Seine and <strong>the</strong> Marne to <strong>the</strong> mouth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

E.hine ^. And <strong>the</strong>y came undoubtedly from that<br />

part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> divifion, which is <strong>the</strong> neareft to Bri-<br />

tain, snd from which <strong>the</strong>y could defcry <strong>the</strong> ifland.<br />

'<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfbn accordingly reprefents <strong>the</strong> mi-<br />

gration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gael, to have been *' in cr<strong>of</strong>ling a<br />

•*' very narrczv channel into Britain ?." <strong>The</strong> i:.^<br />

<strong>the</strong>refore, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gael p'.ffing over into Britain<br />

from <strong>the</strong> lov;- plains <strong>of</strong> Belgium, being un-<br />

* P. 26. i Ca-fur, p. I. U\ 26.<br />

groundc;^,

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