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

tj6 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
'^g VTrsf^yc^ijui flKEANOS y-c^y/x^yi^ AnHMKilovt^.*
And to fhew what he means by the northern fide
of Britain, to the norrh of which lay the Deucaledonian
Ocean, Ptokmy begi.ns with the Novan-
turn Promontorium or Mull of Galloway in his
progrefs to the North, ranges up the coail: to-
Faro Head as the northern Tide of the ifland,
and places the Deiicaledonkn Gkean along it»
P. 115. " It appears not from hiftory thar
" the Scots ever infefted the Roman divifion of
** Britain by fea : Conftantine appointed an of-
** ficer called Comes Littoris Saxonici, to take
" the charge of that part of the coafl of the
" Province, which, was moft expofed to the pi-
** ratical depredations of the Saxons; but of a
*' Comes Littoris Scotici or Hibernici' we have
** never heard."
This is a very feeble argument, I think, and
very fceblv pointed. It begins with a politive
aflertion which is not true. And it ends with aa
inference of renfon which is not juft. Though we
have heard of 1 Comes Littoris Saxonici, and have
not of a Comes Littoris Hibernici, yet it does not
rhcnce follow that the Irifh did never invade the
fliores of Britain. We might not have heard of
rh.e one, and 5^et might of the other. And the Sax-