The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. in
Victoria, among the Horeflii ; Orrea, Ad Hicr-
nam. Ad Tavum, Ad Eficam, and Ad Tinam,
among the Veftnrlones ;
and orhers in Strathern,
Menteith, Badenoch, Braidalbin, Athol, and
Invernefs '. The Romans therefore, who had
penetrated into the center of the Highlands, who
fettled in all the conquered regions from the
Friths to Invernefs, and even made an aftro-
nomical obfervation, which is ftill preferved, at
the town of Invernefs =, could not be ignorant of
the countries in which they refided, could not be
uninformed concerning the region which imme-
diately bordered upon them, and mud have been
fufficiently converfant with all Caledonia. Inti-
mately acquainted, as they were, with the inte-
riors of an iiland which they had never vifited at
all, Ireland •, they
muft have been much better
acquainted with the interiors of Caledonia, in
the heart of which they were encamped for thirty
years together, and where their fcholars appear
to have been particularly obfervant.
Mr. Macpherfon's remark therefore, that his
Caledonians were little known to the Romans,
becaufe they appeared only tranfiently upon the
frontiers of their empire, or becaufe they were
never abfolutely reduced by their armies, appears
to be equally unjuft in the reafoning and falfe in
^ Hiftory of Manchefter, p. 409— 410.
' Hilbry of Mancheiler, p. 56.