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

THE ERITONS ASSERTED, 335
Vl.
I S M I S S I N G thefe femblances of rea-
fons, Mr. Macpherfon now advances ta
V/hat he denominates in the margin his " conclu-
^* five arguments," And, here at leaft, we (hall
meet with reafonings that may be worthy of the
author.
P. 129. " As a concluding argument againft
?' the Hibernian extraction of the Scots, it may
^' not be improper to obferve, that the Caledo-
^* nians might be called Hibernians, their coun-r
^* try in general Hibernia, and the weftern
*' diviiion of it lerna or Yverdhon, without de-
*' riving their blood from the Irifh. The Saxons
^* of England, it is well known, had their Norfolk
** and Suffolk, and the appellation of Southerons
" and Norlands are not hitherto totally extinf'
guifhed among the Scots [the Scotch Low-
?' lajiders] : the antient Pifts, in like manner,
** yere divided into two great tribes, the Veftu-
f* jriones and Deucaledone^jj-the^ihabitants of the
" Nonhera