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17?<br />

THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

Jeptentnonalem Scotti, quos diximiis, advcnicntcs,<br />

fibi locum patriiE fccerunt '. Bede, we fee, fixes<br />

not <strong>the</strong> Scots along <strong>the</strong> weftcrn Highlands and<br />

iflcs, but merely upon <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rn bank <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Clyde. And <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon, involuntarily in-<br />

deed, has difguifed <strong>the</strong> affertion <strong>of</strong> Bede in order<br />

to overthrow it, and loaded it with an extra-<br />

ordinary circumilance to make it appear extra-<br />

vagant. — Nor is <strong>the</strong> declaration, concerning<br />

<strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> veffels and navigation, lefs<br />

{trained or lefs unjuft. <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon has<br />

mifreprefenced <strong>the</strong> curraghs, defcribing one <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>m as contained within <strong>the</strong> compafs <strong>of</strong> a fingic<br />

hide. But his quotation from Solinus fays no<br />

fuch thing : Vimincis alveis quos circumdant<br />

ambitione tergorum bubulinorum. Each boat<br />

was aftually lined with feveral hides. Carinas,<br />

primum ac flatumina, fays Crefar, ex levi ma-,<br />

teria fiebanr ; reliquum corpus navium, viraini-<br />

bus contextum, coriis integebatur \ And Giral-<br />

dus Cambrenils, mentioning <strong>the</strong>fe curraghs, which<br />

continued to his time in Ireland, and fpeaking<strong>of</strong> a<br />

fmall one that went out to fea with two men only,<br />

defcrlbes it exnrefsly, as cymbulam modicam, arc-<br />

tara, et oblongam, vimineam quidem, et coriis<br />

animalium contextam confutaraque ?. And for<br />

<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon to affirm, that <strong>the</strong> Britilh cur-<br />

raghs were not fufncient to tranfport over a body<br />

' L. ;. c. 5. * P. 240.<br />

3 Topog. Hib. p. 744. Camden,<br />

<strong>of</strong>

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