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THE SRitONS ASSERTED. 177<br />

Separately, and <strong>the</strong>n fee <strong>the</strong> joint refult <strong>of</strong><br />

all.<br />

<strong>The</strong> import <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> firfi p<strong>of</strong>ition is, that no<br />

colony <strong>of</strong> Irifli could have migrated into Caledo-<br />

tiia, becaufe <strong>the</strong>ir velfels tvere fo flight and "rhe<br />

navigation fo dangerous. This is direftly poinced<br />

againft <strong>the</strong> affertion <strong>of</strong> Bede. And, could <strong>the</strong><br />

former be proved, <strong>the</strong> latter mufl be given<br />

up*—But, in order to prove it, <strong>Mr</strong>. Micpherfon<br />

has introduced a foreign circumftance inco <strong>the</strong> faft.<br />

And he argues that no colony <strong>of</strong> Iriih , fufficicnt<br />

to occupy <strong>the</strong> wejlern Highlands and i/les, could<br />

have com.e over at once. Bede does not afierr,<br />

that <strong>the</strong> colony was fufEcient to occupy <strong>the</strong><br />

weftern Highlands and ifles, whe<strong>the</strong>r by ocaiprmf<br />

<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon means a forcible reduftion or a<br />

Complcat inhabitation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m. And he is <strong>the</strong>re-<br />

fore reafoning, not againft Bede, but againft<br />

fome writer in nubibus. Bede fays thus. Pro*<br />

cedente -— tempore Britannia, p<strong>of</strong>t Britones et<br />

Pi^los, tertiam Scottorum nationem in Pi£lorum<br />

parte recepit j qui, duce Reuda de Hiber-<br />

nia progreffi, vel amicitia vel ferro fibimet inter<br />

eos fedes qiias hadenus hahent vindicarwn —<br />

Eft autem fmus maris permaximu.s, qui antiqui-<br />

tus gentem Britonum a Pi£tis fecernebat, qui ab<br />

occidente in terras longo fpatio erumpit, ubi eft<br />

civitas Britonum munidftima ufque hodie, quse<br />

Tocatur Alcluith : ad ciijus videlicety/«»j- partem<br />

N fepten-

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