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

THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 23^
So far for the argument in general. Let us
now examine the particular parts of it. Grofsly
inaccurate as it is in the principal point, it
cannot be exaft in the fubordinate circumftances*
And it is not.
Marcellinus does not fay, as he is here quoted,
that the Ve^luriones and DeUcaledones were the
northern and fouthern Pifts. He makes not the
lead mention of either North or South. And
he was unacquainted with the name of D«?wcale-
dones, though Mr. Macpherfon, in direft con-
tradiction to his own Latin note, quotes him as
ufing it. Pidi in duas gentes divifi, he fays,
D/calidonas et Vefturiones. The Vefturiones
I have Ihewn in the Hiflory of Manchefler to
be only a fmgle tribe, that inhabited a part of
Perth and Mar, and all Gawry, Angus, and
Merns, between ihem '. And D^'caledones I
have equally iliewn to be the fame word with
D^z^caledones in Britifh, and Ammianus's text
'
therefore to need no alteration =. Thefe Mr.
Camden very juflly fuppofed to be the tribes
along the Deucaledonian Ocean of Ptolemy. But
their name does not fignify a pofition to the Weft,
as Mr. Camden imagined, or a fituation to the
North, as Archbifhop Ufher and Mr. Macpherfon
fuppofe. Thefe and Baxter interpret Deu
the Weft, the North, and the South. But it
^ P. 10. * P. 423.
plainly.