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

H THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
fccnt at Marfeiiles. And this appears even from
the account, to which Mr. Macpherfon has referred
us for the contrary. Bellovefus—, profe^lusingen-
tibus pedkum equitumqus copils, in Tricaflinos
venit. Alpes inde oppofita erant— . Ibi quum
velut leptos montinm altitudo teneret Gallos, cir-
cumfpeclarentqueq;i£udm iier junclacoelo jugain
alium orbem terrarum tranfirent,—allatnm eft,
advenas qucerentes agriim ab Sal)'um gente oppugnari.
Maffilienfes erant hi, navibus aPhoca^a
profecli '. And Mr. Macpherfon's jBift princi-
ple is entirely overborne, by the weight of his
own authoriiies, and the force of his own ac-
knowledgments.
Another objeflion of the fame nature Teems
alio to lie as ftrongly againft it. And our author
appears to have written this part of his diifer-
tation with all the hafty vivacity of a man of
genius, purfuing a train of new and fplendid
ideas, but not rigidly examining their uniformity
and agreement with each other.—The fame ci-
vilized Grecians, that are faid to have fettled
in Gaul, and to have thereby introduced a more
improved agriculture into it, are equally faid
to have previoufly fettled in Italy. " The Pe-
*' lafgi of Peloponnefus and the iflands of
" the Archipelago were the firft of the Euro-
*^ pean Noraades v;ho quitted the ambulatory
*' life of their anceftors and applied themfelves
* Livy, 1. Y. c. 34.