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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 203<br />

bus colitur '. In opp<strong>of</strong>ition to this, <strong>Mr</strong>. Mac-<br />

pherfon alledges only, that <strong>the</strong>re were Scots in<br />

Britain more than 150 years before. This may<br />

be true, and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r not be falfe. And hiftory<br />

aftually fliews it; Or<strong>of</strong>ius and o<strong>the</strong>r hiftorians<br />

declaring <strong>the</strong> Irifh to have been all denominated<br />

Scots in <strong>the</strong> fourth and fifth ages, and Bede and<br />

orhers afferting a party <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe Scots to have<br />

migrated into Caledonia. Or<strong>of</strong>ius, <strong>the</strong>refore, ftill<br />

adheres to <strong>the</strong> caufe in which he has been fo<br />

long engaged. He fliews Ireland to have been<br />

<strong>the</strong> general refidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scottiili tribes, when<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was only a fingle nation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m in Caledo-<br />

nia. And Bede and o<strong>the</strong>rs evince <strong>the</strong> migration<br />

<strong>of</strong> this from th<strong>of</strong>e.— ^Nor did Marcellinus meet<br />

with <strong>the</strong> Scots in Britain about <strong>the</strong> middle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

third century. He firfl mentions <strong>the</strong>m after <strong>the</strong><br />

piiddle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth, and un4er <strong>the</strong> year 360 -.<br />

P. 116— ii&» " liidore <strong>of</strong> Seville, who flou-<br />

5' rifhed i-n <strong>the</strong> feventh age, fays, that in his<br />

" time, Ireland was indifcriminately called Scot-<br />

*.' tia and Hibernia— . Ifidore is not <strong>the</strong> firft<br />

" learned prelate who gave to Ireland <strong>the</strong> name<br />

?* <strong>of</strong> Scottia ; a bifhop <strong>of</strong> Canterbury, about <strong>the</strong><br />

f P, 28, Havercamp. * L.xx. c. i.<br />

^* year

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