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

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
The former was the lafl: of four or five fucceflive
Extracts. And this is as pregnant with miftakes
as any of them.
If the mixture of Mr. Macpherfon's Ottadini
and Brigantes with his Gael betwixt the Wails,
was, as he alledges, unavoidable, becaufe the
country betwixt the Walls was the frontier
of Caledonia ; the fame mixture mud have
been equally unavoidable, on the frontiers of
the Belg£e and Cimbri in Wales and Maxima,
The region betwixt the Solway, the Tweed,
and the Friths, is not more " expofed to in-
** vafion," than the land behind the Severne
and the Dee, or the traft between the Humber,
the Merfey, the Tweed, and the Eden.
And fmce the country to the South of the
Solway and Tweed mufl have been equally
expofed to invafion, as that to the North of
them, the barriers of both being exaftly the
fame •,
the fame unavoidable mixture mud have
equally enfued in Northumberland as in the Lothians
&c., and in Cumberland as in Anandale
Sec. The reafoning, therefore, is not only in-
accurate, but carries an edge with it, that, " like
" an ill-iheathed knife, will cut its mailer ^"
The fafts alfo and the etymons are both equally
untrue.—I have previoufly fliewn the Ottadini
not to have been Cimbric, even upon Mr, ]\Iac-
^ Shakefpear.
pherfon's