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

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Mr. Macpherfon here gives over his critical
remarks and conclu/ive arguments, as he calls
them, againfl: the cuftomary application of thefe
paffages in Claudlan. And what has he faid
againft it ? That Claudian has perhaps invented
and exaggerated facls ; that he ufes, however,
no exaggerated language ;
and that therefore his
Tethys or Ocean cannot fignify the channel
betwixt Ireland and Caledonia, when the chan-
nel is exprefsly called Ocean by Ptolemy : and
jthat the Scots never landed to the South of the
Walls, never infefled the fouthern diviiion of
pritain by fea, and were never attacked or pur-
fued at fea by the Romans ; when they ac-
tually invaded the Provinces by fea in the days
of Theodofius, aftuaily landed in North and
South Wales, and ravaged all the weflern fluore
pf Britain, in the days of Stilicho, and were
aftually purfued by the Roman navy of Theo-
dofius to the NotiH of Ireland.
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